From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 25, 1916:

• “Parents of children who are enrolled in the Cordley school are planning to ask the board of education that two more grades, the fifth and sixth, be installed there at the beginning of the second half year of the city schools. At present the first four grades are taught at Cordley, the entire number which the board of education last fall planned to have handled there. A number of the Cordley pupils will be promoted above the fourth grade at the end of the semester. Under the present arrangement they would have to go to Quincy school. A number of the patrons of Cordley school have taken up with S. R. Holloway, member of the board of education from the south side, the matter of installing two additional grades at the school, which they say can be done easily as there are two unoccupied rooms in the basement of the building. Mr. Holloway has indicated his willingness to take the matter up with the board at its next meeting.”
• “With examinations in full swing and scheduled to last all the week, life at the University of Kansas will be mighty quiet until next week, when the regular school work of the second semester will open. The first examinations were held last Saturday afternoon and many of the students will be through by the middle of the week…. Enrollment will not open until Monday…. The professors who are in charge of the work will have their lunches as they labor on that day and it will continue without pause from 8 o’clock in the morning until 6 o’clock at night. The University Y. W. C. A. will serve hot rolls and coffee to the working faculty people…. Registrar George O. Foster looks for a substantial increase in the enrollment next semester, and although he has almost lost hope of seeing the total pass the 3,000 mark for this year, he does insist that it will be very near the coveted number.”
• “Quietly and practically unobserved, the ice gorge in the Kansas River broke up last night and floated down the river, taking with it small pieces of drift wood and a cluster of piling which had been placed in the river by the bridge builders to anchor their raft…. The thing most dreaded by property owners along the river and the bridge company at work on the new bridge was the cold snap which arrived a few hours too late to freeze the jam of ice blocks fast together. If this should have occurred grave danger to property and bridges along the river would have resulted according to persons who have observed ice gorges in the river on former occasions.”
• “The city ordinance calling an election on the proposition to purchase the Lawrence water plant was passed at the weekly meeting of the city commission today. The election is called for March 7, the day of the city primary election, and the polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The ordinance authorizes an election to vote bonds to take over all of the property of the Lawrence Water company except the office building on Massachusetts street. The bonds will run thirty years and will be issued in denominations of not more than $1,000 each.”
• “An ordinance designed to decrease fire hazard in Lawrence by requiring safe construction of all chimneys and flues was considered at the meeting of the city commission today. The ordinance specifies the methods which shall be followed in the construction of chimneys and provides for inspection by the superintendent of the fire department who shall collect a fee for inspection. The question of fees proved a stumbling block in the consideration of the ordinance. The fees must go to the city and can not be paid to any city employe who is also on salary. The ordinance was laid over.”
• “A few hardy followers of the great Scottish pastime cannot even by cold or unpleasant weather be driven away from the golf links. The country club yesterday and today was the scene of games played by the members.”