From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 22, 1916:

• “Orders to the National Guard of Missouri, Kansas and California to be ready to entrain for the Mexican border as soon as possible were dispatched today by the war department…. Tears outnumbered smiles at the Union Pacific station this morning when the National Guard left for Fort Riley. There were smiles among those in the crowd, to be sure; but the tears of mothers and dear ones to the soldiers quieted all but the faintest of smiles. This thing of going to war is altogether a serious business. It was a quiet goodbye. There was no tumultuous shouting, and the band did not play a stirring march as the troop train left the station. Instead, there was only the waving of handkerchiefs, the low call of relatives to their boys on board the cars and the faint cheers of those in the crowd who were not deeply touched by the departure. The mothers did not cheer; nor the soldier boys…. Not that the boys are not enthusiastically giving their service for their country – for they are. There are no regrets on their part, but they realize that war is a serious business and their enthusiasm was tempered by the realization of what the parting might mean. It is estimated that five thousand people, afoot and in hundreds of motor cars, were at the station this morning to see the boys leave…. Slowly, steadily, the boys filed up the steps of their car, and disappeared within. The crowd pressed nearer and nearer the train. Slowly the uniforms, so yellow in color as to resemble gold, disappeared from the crowd. In a golden stream had departed from Lawrence the treasure of the community – its youth – for a few weeks, perhaps, at least the country fervently hopes the trouble will be quickly ended.”
• “Howard Blackmar, son of Prof. F. W. Blackmar of the University, is one Lawrence Guardsman who is already on the border. Mr. Blackmar, who was in the United States forestry service, with headquarters at Albuquerque, N. M., is a sergeant of the first class in Company G, First regiment, New Mexico National Guard, and he answered the call to the colors some weeks ago.”
• “No definite appointments have yet been made by the administrative committee of the University summer session towards filling the three vacancies on the faculty caused by the departure of Dr. James Naismith, Captian Frank E. Jones, and Lieut. Briggs for service in Mexico. Dr. Alice Goetz, women’s physical training director, will take charge of Dr. Naismith’s classes for the time being until a new instructor is secured from the east. During Dr. Naismith’s absence it is expected that W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics, will head the department of physical education.”
• “Albert Emmanuel, the man who built the street railway in Lawrence, is in the city looking after his Kansas properties…. Mr. Emmanuel reports business in a satisfactory condition and again restates his belief in the future of Lawrence. Mr. Emmanuel has proven that a man with a soul at the head of a corporation puts a soul into the corporation itself. No private capital owned by Lawrence men has ever been used more for the interests of the city as a whole than has the property of the Railway and Light company. It is like a visit to home folks for Mr. Emmanuel to come to Lawrence as he has many friends here among the business men of the city.”