From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 5, 1916:

• “Before an audience which packed the big auditorium in Robinson gymnasium to its fullest capacity, Henry J. Allen, editor of the Wichita Beacon and a candidate for governor of Kansas at the last election on the Progressive ticket, delivered the annual baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the University of Kansas…. His talk before the graduates had a deep religious flavor throughout and a solemn crowd of black-gowned seniors filed out of the gymnasium when it was over…. Reflections on the war in Europe and its relation to the success or failure of the Christian religion took up the main body of the sermon. ‘The fighting nations would be at peace,’ Mr. Allen declared, ‘if they had an adequate conception of the meaning of the teachings of Jesus Christ. What we need most in the world is a practical application of Christianity.’… Declaring that the United States is founded upon brotherhood and is true democracy, and that our attitude in the present war of standing for peace and justice has proved that we are not far from our ideals, the speaker came out in a firm stand for pacifism. He asserted, however, that he favored a strict enforcement of our rights and the power to do it…. In closing his address Mr. Allen advised the graduates on their life in the business and social world which they are about to enter, and told them that the college graduate should feel it a part of his work as a man of superior training to stamp the ideals of democracy and Christianity upon the world.”
• “Miss Eva Bates, for three years a teacher in the city schools, committed suicide by taking cyanide at the home of her father, Daniel Bates, at 1024 Rhode Island street Saturday afternoon…. The unfortunate young woman took a pride in her housekeeping and everything about the house had been put in order srupulously. The body was lying on a couch when found by her father. Miss Bates was subject to fits of despondency, which had become more marked after the death of her mother several years ago. While a teacher in the city schools about six years ago, she made an unsuccessful attempt to take her own life. She was 38 years old, and had been her father’s housekeeper since the death of her mother.”
• “While a number of University students in the past year have got married and kept their secret for some months, the record in that direction appears to be held by Frank Coffey, a University medical student. Saturday night Coffey went to his home in Kansas City with Miss Marguerite Burger and announced that they had been married four years ago. A party of friends had gathered there to surprise him, but he had the bigger surprise for them. It is said that a number of would-be suitors of Miss Burger have been wondering why she paid no attention to their advances. Now they know.”
• “Arkansas City, Kan. — Nine inches of rain fell here in three hours yesterday. Railroad tracks were washed out, streams in the vicinity became bank full and much property was damaged. Winfield, Kansas, got six inches.”