From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 16, 1916:

• “General opposition among residents of North Lawrence to establishing a city dump below the north end of the bridge resulted in keeping the dump in its present location. The City Commission today authorized a new lease of the present dump, the term ending December 31, 1916. The proposal to establish a dump at the north end of the bridge was proposed at a commission meeting some months ago. It was urged as an advantage that the material deposited at the dump would assist in stopping the erosion of the river bank. This has grown to be a serious problem, as the river threatens to encroach upon Elm street. A double advantage of a dump in that location was claimed because the city would save the amount spent in rent on the present dump. The North Lawrence people did not take kindly to the plan. Anxious as they are to have the northward progress of the river stopped, they were unwilling to see the north approach to the bridge disfigured by an unsightly dump. They made a vigorous protest and the commission agreed that their objections were well founded.”
• “The city police have been entertaining a motor car mystery since yesterday morning when a stranger drove a Ford car into the alley between New York and Connecticut street in the 1100 block and left it there. The man asked a woman if he could leave the car back of a barn in the alley while he went to buy some new tires. Instead of buying tires he sold a set of four to C. W. Smith for $10 and received $7 in cash. Mr. Smith still owes $3 which the man has not returned to collect. Police officer took the car last night from the alley where it had been standing all day and it is now at the police station. Investigation showed that it had been driven into town on the rims, which looked as if a considerable distance had been covered in that fashion.”
• “The city engineer was authorized today to make a canvass of the town to find how many down spouts are connected with sanitary sewers in violation of the city ordinance. This action was in anticipation of trouble which may come with the spring freshets. A great deal of trouble was experienced last year in many parts of town as a result of violations of the ordinance. The city engineer hopes to secure a general observance of the city law, by starting prosecution if necessary, so that the trouble of last year will not recur.”
• “The war relief work at the Unitarian church tomorrow afternoon will be started promptly at 2 o’clock…. The largest shipment of surgical dressing that has yet been made will be sent to New York by the Lawrence workers this week. A letter recently received from Miss Carita Spencer, head of the New York committee, indicates the need of all supplies that can be sent. Miss Spencer wrote: ‘You are doing splendid work and we congratulate you on the quality of it. We are glad to know you are going to send a shipment each week. We can’t send dressings to Europe fast enough.'”
• “The Women’s Missionary Union of Ottawa will start war relief work on the plans adopted and carried on with success in Lawrence. The Ottawa Herald, in giving an account of the starting of the work there, cites the progress made in Lawrence to show what may be accomplished and quotes an Ottawa woman as saying, ‘What the women of Lawrence are doing the women of Ottawa can do.'”