100 years ago: Gift of land to make south KU entrance a reality

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 8, 1916:

  • “The long negotiations which have been underway for a south approach to the University were given a step forward this morning when the city commissioners accepted an offer made by S. W. Gowans to deed a strip of land at the southeast corner of the campus sufficient to make a street forty feet wide. The strip will start at the south end of the Gleed road, and run south to join Indiana street. This land, which is outside the city limits, will be deeded by Mr. Gowans as a gift to the city…. Agreement entered into by Mr. Gowans, the city of Lawrence, and the board of administration for the University, now makes it possible to inaugurate plans for the boulevard entering the University campus on the north and leaving it on the south. Many successive boards of regents at the University have worked on this program.”
  • “Jefferson county democrats are planning a big banquet for Thursday night at Perry. It will be the first rally of the party for the year and it is expected that the attendance of loyal democrats from Jefferson and neighboring counties will be large. A number of Lawrence men are expecting to attend the banquet and hear the addresses made by prominent democrats…. Tickets are on sale by all central committeemen and at this office. Plan to be there.”
  • “On his road to the Old Soldiers Home in Dodge City, George W. Haskins, age 72, died last night at the Santa Fe station. Death was due to heart failure. Mr. Haskins was a member of the G A. R. Post in Topeka where he lived for a number of years.”
  • “An employment agency is to be established at the University of Kansas, it was announced today. The function of the bureau will be to obtain positions for graduates and students…. Prof. W. H. Johnson, who has been director of the university’s bureau of appointments, will have charge of the new bureau. He today pointed out that he expected the new agency will do much to assist ‘collegians’ in that period of uncertainty during the first six months after graduation before they have completely adjusted themselves.”
  • “During the month of January this year four petitions for divorces were filed in the district court. In the probate court only fourteen marriage licenses were issued, half of them to people living out of the county. These figures would seem to show that during the first month of the leap year for every two people in the county who were willing to surrender their single blessedness one person was urgently seeking to regain it again.”