From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 24, 1916:

• “That President Wilson may make a short address at Lawrence in the course of his western trip next week is regarded here as a strong possibility. Congressman Joseph Taggart of the Second district called on the president last Saturday and invited him to make a brief address at Lawrence while on his way to Kansas City from Topeka. If the president appears here it will be on the afternoon of February 2…. It is regarded as almost certain that the president will consent to make a short speech from the rear platform of his train when it stops at Lawrence…. President Wilson gave an address in Robinson gymnasium the year before his election.”
• “Prof. S. J. Hunter of the University department of entomology has noticed within the last few days that the canker worms which last year did considerable damage to the Elm trees in Lawrence are becoming active. He told a Journal-World reporter today that the people of the town should take immediate steps to prevent them from repeating their ravages among the Lawrence elms.”
• “That the purchase of the water works at $175,000 is in the interest of the people of Lawrence was the statement of E. H. Dunmire, city engineer at the Unitarian church yesterday afternoon. ‘Favorable action on the proposition of taking over the plant will ride the city of the company and open the way for better water service in Lawrence,’ Mr. Dunmire said. ‘This will mean much for the city, the University, and every citizen of the town.'”
• “Caught with the goods in the form of a keg partially filled with beer and an assortment of bottles in his house, Frank Simpson pleaded guilty in police court this morning to maintaining a nuisance. He was given a fine of $105.50 and thirty days in the city jail. City police officers got a tip recently that Simpson’s house was the scene of many parties and Saturday night they raided it. There was no party in progress at the time, but evidence was so conclusive that Simpson pleaded guilty as soon as he was arraigned. The raid Saturday night resulted in the arrest of ‘Egg’ Dixon and Victoria Walls. They pleaded guilty in police court this morning to a charge of improper conduct and were fined $15.50 each. All three of the persons arrested as the result of the raid were committed to the city jail because of inability to pay their fines.”
• “A great many war horses and mules are being furnished to contending nations from Lawrence dealers. The latest sale made from Lawrence was a shipment to the British government of four carloads of mules Thursday by Gene Gallagher.”
• “The meeting of the Pleasant Grove Literary society which was announced for last Friday was postponed until next Friday, January 28, on account of the condition of the roads. The meeting will be held in the Pleasant Grove school house.”