From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 23, 1916:

• “With the final movement of the Kansas National Guard to Fort Riley today and the immediately expected entrainment for the Mexican border, 26 cities of Kansas were bereft of their soldiery. This condition has not been equaled in the state since the Spanish-American war. However, steps to fill the places left by the departure of the present Guard will be taken immediately…. As soon as the work of transferring the present guardsmen to federal service is completed, activity of recruiting a new Guard will be rushed. By nightfall the entire Kansas militia is expected to be under camp at Fort Riley. Part of the Guard can be moved to the border as early as Sunday.”
• “The departure of the remaining Lawrence companies for Fort Riley was the magnet which drew upwards of three thousand people to the Union Pacific station this morning. The University company, Company M; the headquarters company, including the first regiment band and a detachment of mounted orderlies; and additional members of Company H, the supply company, and the medical detachment left this morning. Classes at the University were dismissed in honor of the departure of the K. U. boys, and a swarm of students swelled the ranks of townspeople who went to the train…. With flags waving and the band playing, the train pulled out of the station while the crowd cheered madly. The departure this morning was as enthusiastic and noisy as that of yesterday was tearful and quiet…. For nearly an hour the soldiers stood in groups talking to their relatives and friends, before the train at last pulled in the station yard. The crowd joked with the men in uniform, laughingly describing to them the terrors of the Mexican border, and comparing the temperature there to certain unmentionable regions. The soldiers laughed back, and suggested that the temperature could hardly be hotter than that of this morning. And with three thousand people pushing about in the narrow station yard, sweltering beneath the sun’s rays, the crowd replied that the soldiers were right…. ‘Parson’ Spotts, former K. U. cheerleader, led the students and the University company in a ‘rock chalk,’ and the remaining soldiers joined in on the chorus of shouts which followed. Only here and there in the big throng were those who openly showed their grief at a possible dark future ahead of the men…. Then came the clanging of the engine bell, a sudden burst of music from the band, and the cheers of the crowd. The train moved forward slowly, gradually gathered speed, and rounded the bend out of sight. The last of the soldier companies had left Lawrence for whatever the future holds in store.”
• “In the waterworks election yesterday, Lawrence people for the second time voted their approval of the plan to purchase the waterworks system and improve it in a manner to insure an adequate and satisfactory supply of water at all times. Less interest was shown in the election than in the one of March 14, declared illegal on a technicality, but this was largely due to the feeling on the part of the friends of the proposition that there was little doubt of the result. Many of the friends of the proposition, too, were out of town for the summer which cut down the vote.”
• “With the death of Mrs. Jane Rundle Oliver yesterday afternoon at her home, corner of Tennessee and Eighth streets, Lawrence lost one of her oldest and most esteemed citizens. Mrs. Oliver had been a resident here for fifty-six years and while never prominent in public affairs, she has left an impress on the hearts and minds of the many who knew her, because of her beautiful character and sweet disposition. Mrs. Oliver was born in the county of Cornwall, England, March 15, 1827, and was therefore past eighty-nine years of age. She was the widow of the late Adam Oliver and came to Lawrence with her husband in 1860 and with him passed through the trying period of the Civil war, the Quantrell massacre, and the early struggles of Kansas. Mrs. Oliver was the last to pass away of the families connected with the Methodist church of Lawrence in the early days.”