From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 7, 1916:

“A suit for the recovery of $25,000 damages was filed yesterday afternoon in district court by Annie Irene Clopton of Madison, Kansas, against Thomas Trotter of Baldwin. The petition alleges that in 1898, when the plaintiff was sixteen months of age, she was thrown from a farm wagon in which she was riding with her parents, when the team was frightened by an attack of a very vicious bulldog owned by Thomas Trotter. The petition further states that Mr. Trotter knew that the dog was a menace to the neighborhood. Miss Clopton alleges that she has suffered spasms and great pain on account of the accident. The petition also states that she is partially paralyzed as a result of being thrown from the wagon, and has been ever since the accident. She asked $10,000 for the suffering resulting from the runaway and $15,000 damages for permanent injuries.”

“K. D. Klemm, president of the Kansas City Kaw Valley & Western interurban line, said while in Lawrence this week that the trip to celebrate the opening of the interurban would become a possibility within a few weeks. It will first be necessary, Mr. Klemm said, for the ground to thaw and allow the remainder of the work of ballasting the tracks to be done. The company proposes to haul the Lawrence business men and other guests over a track that is smooth.”

“The Journal-World takes a good deal of pleasure in stating that the two little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Perkins, who were sick with sore throats, are practically well, and in fact at no time were seriously sick. All of the family were given anti-toxin, but with the little one who passed away, the disease developed so rapidly that the anti-toxin was of no avail. Little Patty was a little hoarse Thursday evening, the first intimation of her sickness, and passed away Saturday morning.”

“Elmer Benoist received word today from his brother, Tom W. Benoist, who is now in London, saying that he had joined the aviation corps of the French army. Benoist is a manufacturer of aviation supplies in St. Louis and was in Europe on a business trip connected with his firm which was furnishing supplies for the English and French, when he decided to enter the French service.”

“Mrs. Waterman Stone, mother of Mrs. A. T. Walker of Lawrence, was living at the Broadlands, a fashionable family hotel at Kansas City, which was damaged by fire Sunday morning. Mrs. Stone lost all of her effects in the fire.”