From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 31, 1916:

• “Miss Maud Swisher is detained at the county jail awaiting a hearing in regard to her sanity, as the result of a walk taken yesterday morning under strange conditions. Clad only in a nightgown and a cloak, Miss Swisher early yesterday morning walked from the home of her parents in Breezedale to a house in the 700 block of Mississippi street, and there sought shelter. The young woman walked barefoot through the snow…. Upon discovering that their daughter had escaped from their home where she had been under very careful watch, her parents notified Sheriff Cummings, who immediately started a search for the missing girl…. Miss Swisher was recently at a private sanitarium in Bonner Springs receiving treatment but escaped and was found by officers in Topeka. Her father was notified and brought her to Lawrence where she has remained since. She was for several years a student of Kansas University.”
• “The second semester of the school year 1915-16 opened at the University today when enrollment for classes was held in Robinson gymnasium. Registrar George O. Foster believes that at least 150 new students will be added to the already record-breaking number in school and that the total will come very near the 3,000 mark…. Overworked professors spent the day from 8 o’clock until late this afternoon in enrolling the students and took no time off for lunch, but continued working with one hand while they ate sandwiches and drank coffee which were served by the University Y. W. C. A. girls at noon time.”
• “Immediately after midnight Saturday night, the work of installing the interurban crossings over the Union Pacific switch tracks in North Lawrence was started and at 5 o’clock yesterday morning the work was finished. As far as track is concerned, the interurban cars can now move as far west as Bridge street…. The crossing of the Union Pacific tracks was necessary if the interurban was to carry out its plans of hauling bridge material for the construction of the new Kaw river bridge, and to cross the river to Massachusetts street.”
• “Prompt response to a hurried call from Tonganoxie for the lungmotor at Lawrence, and a race over bad roads proved ineffective yesterday in saving the life of Charles Cain, an 11-year-old Tonganoxie boy who was given an anaesthetic yesterday, for a slight operation. The boy failed to recover consciousness after the anaesthetic was administered…. The call came to Lawrence at 1:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The roads were so bad that the trip to Tonganoxie was not completed until 3 o’clock. There had been no appearance of life in the boy’s body since the call for assistance was sent, and all efforts to restore life by means of the lungmotor were unavailing…. The boy was a son of C. H. Cain. The anaesthetic had been administered for an operation on the tonsils.”
• “The second basketball team of the University of Kansas defeated the team of the Polytechnic Institute at Kansas City Saturday night by a score of 34 to 15. The Hamilton style of basketball as exemplified by the second team players seemed to bewilder the Kansas City boys and had them completely outclassed.”
• “For the first time since the rural schools were closed before the Christmas holidays the Abilene school was opened today. The school is located about seven miles east of Baldwin in district Number 65. The school has been completely demoralized on account of sickness.”
• “Mrs. C. L. Kelley, at Nineteenth and Arkansas streets, has 34 chickens which were hatched from 40 eggs by three hens January 24.”
• “It has been a dull month and the business men need money. The people of Lawrence can help out by paying their bills promptly. Everybody help.”