From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 15, 1916:

“To be overjoyed on learning that one’s brother is in prison is rather an unusual reaction to such news, yet that is the way Aaron Friedman of 820 Ohio street felt this morning when he received a letter from his brother Michell. It is not an ordinary prison experience Brother Michell is having, and there is no social stigma upon it. He is a prisoner of war in the German prison camp at Altdamm, Germany, having been captured while fighting with the forces of the Russian Czar. Mr. Friedman this morning received a postcard mailed from the prison camp by his brother. ‘It makes me feel good to get it,’ he said. ‘Now I know he is safe for the rest of the war.'”

“The hope that the warmer weather which prevailed this morning marked the end of the cold snap for the present was entertained in Lawrence today, but was dispelled by the predictions for tomorrow from the weather bureau…. Plumbers were still busy today repairing the damage in the way of frozen pipes which resulted from the cold weather of the middle of the week.”

“Montgomery Ward & Co. was indicted by the United States grand jury on the Kansas side this week on two charges of shipping liquor into Kansas in violation of the Webb-Kenyon law. In one case it is charged that 94 per cent alcohol was imply labeled drugs and in the other it was labeled ‘Mellin’s Food.’ The law requires that liquor be labeled just what it is when sent into prohibition states by common carriers. Andrew Young, manager of the Kansas City branch of the Ward company, said the trouble grew out of a mistake in shipments of drugs and a misunderstanding by a shipping clerk. He said no whisky was handled by the house and that the firm was stopping the sale of alcohol.”

“D. J. Horton, one of the best known and most honored citizens of Lawrence, passed away at his home last evening…. Judge Horton, as he was generally known, had been a practicing lawyer in Lawrence for thirty-five years…. He stood well as a lawyer and was elected probate judge at a time when the county was strongly republican and when democratic office holders were almost unknown in Douglas county. A scholarly man, splendidly equipped for his life’s work, and a veteran of the civil war, he was quiet and unostentatious and lived a life characterized by kindness and honor.”

“George Stanwix, a farmer living east of Sibley, was bitten yesterday by a colt which had shown symptoms of rabies. Mr. Stanwix sought the advice of a physician immediately and will probably take the Pasteur treatment in Lawrence. The colt was killed after it had bitten Mr. Stanwix. Dr. C. B. McClelland was called. He said today that the animal showed undoubted symptoms of rabies, and that a test made after killing the animal confirmed this diagnosis…. There is no information as to how the colt became infected, as nothing is known of any rabid dog being at large in the neighborhood.”

“The fire department was called at 12:20 o’clock this morning to 700 Ohio street and found that a bed in the house had been consumed down to the springs. It was learned that the fire had been caused by placing a hot flatiron in the bed to warm it up while the occupant of the house was attending a meeting.”

“A part of the city hall heating system in the shed which houses the city’s Ford car was found frozen up this morning, and members of the police force spent a large part of the morning with a gasoline torch thawing out the ice.”