From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 11, 1916:

• “The Journal-World is informed that Henry Albach is preparing to flood the city of Lawrence with circulars tomorrow or Monday morning in a last endeavor to defeat the proposition to purchase the water plant. These circulars, it is understood, will reiterate the false story about the city being saddled with a debt in excess of the purchase price of the plant…. The object of the last-minute campaign which will be launched is easy to see. It is hoped that voters may be deceived into the belief that it will be dangerous for the city to buy the water plant, and that the statements contained in the circulars will be issued so late that it will be impossible to controvert them…. All allegations that the city will assume a big debt along with the water plant are untrue and have been proven so. The plant will come to the city ‘free of all incumbrances’ of whatever nature.”
• “Exhibits of city water softened and put through a filtration process which have been placed in the Innes store window and the Round Corner drug store window may be a revelation to those who have been too busy to go to the University and see the plant there work. In one bottle is the city water just as it comes from the mains. In another is the water with the iron removed. In the third bottle is the clear softened water. The color of the water is very materially affected by the processes through which it has gone.”
• “Emma S. Bennett filed suit for divorce yesterday in district court against Frank Bennett, who is now in the county jail awaiting trial on the charge of operating a gambling house. Mrs. Bennett alleges in her petition that her husband has been guilty of extreme cruelty against her and on several occasions has struck her. She also alleges that in addition to being a habitual drunkard Bennett has been guilty of gross neglect of duty toward her, obliging her to run a restaurant to support herself and the children. She asks the custody of her two children, Delman and Edith, and asks the court to restrain Bennett from disposing of certain property until the case is heard.”
• “The Mothers’ League of Lawrence has gone on record as favoring a curfew law without any loopholes that would prevent its strict enforcement. The members do not want children to be on the streets at night, even with their parents’ permission. The following statement of the position of the Mothers’ League has been filed with Mayor Francisco: ‘The Mothers’ League approves the enforcement of the curfew ordinance providing the word ‘permission’ be omitted and that the ordinance be made to require the child to be accompanied by parent or guardian.'”
• “Twenty students at the University have borrowed from the student loan fund in amounts ranging from $40 to $100 during the present school year, according to Professor E. E. Engel who has charge of the fund.”