From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 7, 1916:

• “Stored away in a back room at police headquarters but in a place that can easily be reached in a hurry, are three Marlin rifles which the police force have had in their possession for over a year. These guns are in first class shape, but until yesterday they were merely ornaments in the glass case which appears to be built for them. But yesterday after speculating for a few hours on what would have happened if the four bandits who raided St. Mary’s had made Lawrence their objective point, Chief of Police J. M. Boyd took his force for a couple of hours’ rifle practice near the brick yard. And now they are prepared for any emergency which might arise for some of the men made some fine shots yesterday. Each man fired fifty rounds in the practice and it is reported that a postage stamp was not even safe at a distance of one block. Henry Smith was the hero of the day and was pronounced the best shot of the whole force with rifles. Then he took out his revolver and plugged a few papers off the street a block away just to ‘show ’em how it was done.'”
• “Calls for help are being received in large numbers each day at the Y. M. C. A., where a free employment bureau is being run. All classes of employers are in need of help and the Y. M. authorities ran out of men to fill the jobs long ago. Secretary Boltz estimates that he has placed almost fifty men and boys in good jobs this summer. The jobs which come into the office range from farm work to mowing lawns and beating rugs. The farmers have been furnished with most of the older boys who need work while the younger fellows have been given the lighter city work. Any man or boy wanting a good job will have a fine list to choose from at the Y. M. C. A. building.”
• “The opening of the south approach to the University was made a reality this morning when the report of the appraisers appointed to inspect the property was approved by the city commissioners…. An ordinance was passed declaring Indiana street to be extended south of the University through the land appraised. The step comes after a long period of agitation by the people residing in the University addition who have been forced to use private sidewalks or the street car tracks in getting to the University from the south side. The work on the new approach will be started as soon as the city commissioners and the board of administration can make the necessary arrangements.”
• “Charles S. Gleed of Topeka was in Lawrence yesterday to confer with the library board upon the matter of requesting an enlargement of the Lawrence Public Library. Mr. Gleed looked over the crowded conditions of the library and offered his aid in securing the enlargement.”
• “The trolley wire was being strung from the bridge today to connect with the street railway trolley at Seventh street. The switches and tracks into the car barn in the 600 block are being laid today and the pavement will be replaced tomorrow afternoon if the work goes as well as expected.”
• “Practically all of the Kansas National Guard was either at the [Mexican] border or on its way there today when the three remaining battalions of the First Infantry Regiment departed from the military reservation for Eagle Pass, Texas, this morning in response to President Wilson’s call for troops to guard the international boundary line.”
• “Harman Faringer, 724 New York street, contracted a severe cold last week and is now suffering from an attack of the measles.”