From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 19, 1916:

• “Students who feared damaging stories about them would appear in the ‘Sour Owl,’ which appears about this time every year at the university, got County Attorney J. S. Amick out of bed Thursday night and tried to induce him to secure an injunction suppressing the sheet. Mr. Amick was too sleepy to care much about who his visitors were — they got him up after midnight — but he thinks they were fraternity men who were afraid of stories that might be printed. No injunction was issued. Mr. Amick explained that he could only ask for injunctions, not issue them, and that while Judge Smart was in town at the time he probably would not take kindly to the idea of granting an injunction at that hour of the night. The students went away and the expected issue of the ‘Sour Owl’ did not appear. Just how its suppression was secured has not been revealed.”
• “The Kansas river is rising at the rate of two inches an hour, the water has already surrounded the bridge caisson in which the men are at work and is lapping around the edges of the offices and other parts of the bridge yards. As a precaution against loss in the event of a further rise the bridge company fastened all endangered material with cables. People between Lawrence and Topeka have reported that the water has risen several feet and that the channel is partly choked with ice…. All day a large mass of broken ice has been grinding down the river. Large logs, telegraph poles and other pieces of drift wood tell of high waters along the river or its tributaries.”
• “Plans for a bird panorama on the second floor of the University museum have been completed by C. D. Bunker, the curator. Mr. Bunker estimates that it will be several years before the work as outlined can be completed. Instead of having the thousands of birds owned by the museum, merely mounted and placed in rows in cases, Mr. Bunker plans to arrange them in scenes similar to their natural habitat. This will mean months of painstaking work, for the arranging of scenes resembling actual landscape requires great care. At present on the main floor of the museum, is an animal panorama, which indicates the idea which Mr. Bunker will follow. However with birds, because of their greater number, the panorama will be more intricate…. They will be arranged according to life or climatic zones, and by families, so that visitors in the museum will be able to study the birds in a connected way.”
• “The Gideons, the Christian Commercial Travelers’ Association of the United States, will hold a rally in Lawrence tomorrow for the purpose of placing Bibles in the guest rooms of all the hotels of the city. An addition of about 180 copies will be made to the 8,000 Bibles which the Gideons have placed in Kansas hotels.”
• “W. Benson and P. C. Klippel, the two students who ‘achieved fame for a day’ in Kansas City this week through walking to the metropolis from Lawrence and then staging a street fight, have been suspended for thirty days from the Sigma Nu fraternity according to an announcement made by the president, Dick Smith.”
• “The new McAllaster school will be formally opened Monday night with a program at the school building. Rev. E. E. Stauffer, president of the parent-teacher association at McAllaster school, will preside.”