From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 9, 1916:

• “J. L. Smoot, director of the courses in vocational training at Haskell Institute, this morning announced the winners of the competitions in the different classes of the school. Samples of the best work were placed on exhibition in the gymnasium at Haskell yesterday and judges rendered their decisions as to the best pieces last night. Displays of woodwork, manual training, carpentry, stenography, blacksmithing, sewing, mending, domestic art, and all the different vocational branches which are taught the Indian students to make of them capable and efficient citizens, were set up in the gymnasium, as a feature of commencement week at the largest Indian school in the United states.”
• “City Engineer Dunmire said this morning that the work on the North Lawrence paving recently has been progressing rapidly, and the end of the job is in sight. If everything goes well and full crews continue on the Locust street job, Mr. Dunmire thinks the Union Pacific switches should be reached by Tuesday evening of next week. That may be as far as the paving will be completed for the present. The level of Bridge street between the new bridge and the Union Pacific tracks has not yet been determined, and the Locust street paving between the tracks and Bridge street will be held up until the grade is decided upon.”
• “K. U.’s Summer Session broke all records when the enrollment passed 550 at 3 o’clock this afternoon, an increase of 184 over the enrollment at the same time last year. Classes, which started yesterday morning at 7:30 o’clock, are now well under way and the machinery of the school working smoothly. Students are still pouring in, however, and the office of registration has been crowded all day with a busy throng who are waiting to enroll.”
• “The galling bonds of matrimony will continue to gall several Lawrence married couples for a few days, all because the district court is having a lot of its time taken up with the civil case of the Bismarck Drainage District vs. A. A. Hicks. Judge Smart had intended to get to the divorce cases, which are scheduled for the May term, today, but the drainage case has taken up so much time that it is probable that no divorce actions will be heard until next week and the incompatibles will have to make the best of the bad bargain that is holding them together.”
• “‘Hello! Is this Moak’s livery barn? Send me a good horse and a top buggy down to 825 New Hampshire street, about 12:30. Have the driver tie him in front of the house and I’ll pay you when I come in. I want to drive out in the country for a couple of hours.’ So spoke a pleasant masculine voice over the telephone to the keeper of Moak’s livery barn about 11 o’clock yesterday morning. The keeper had the horse delivered on time and thought no more about it until late yesterday afternoon. About 5:30 o’clock. he happened to think that the rig should have been back several hours earlier. He got nervous and telephoned the sheriff who is today looking for the lost animal. At press time no clue had been found. The horse, which is light brown in color and weighs about 900 pounds, was hitched to a black top-buggy. Mr. Moak offers $25 for information as to its whereabouts.”