From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 17, 1916:

• “The board of administration, meeting at the University this week end, already has started on the problem of deciding what recommendations to make to the state legislature of 1917 for new buildings to be erected on Mount Oread. ‘There is a real problem,’ said former Governor E. W. Hoch, in discussing the situation last night. ‘In the first place we have a foundation for the administration building which cost $40,000 and it will cost $300,000 to erect a building over it. But such a building would not meet all the present demands of the school. The University also needs an auditorium and a fine arts building to replace the old North hall.’ Then Governor Hoch told of a remark made by a member of the efficiency and economy committee chosen by the legislature. During a recent visit at K. U. Senator Joseph inspected North hall. ‘I would be afraid to keep any good cattle in that building. I would feel they were not safe,’ Senator Joseph, himself a cattle dealer in Butler county, stated. It is understood to be the consensus of opinion among the board of administration members that the needs of buildings on the University campus are greater than at any of the other state institutions. Contracts have recently been let for $100,000 buildings at the Emporia and Hays Normals.”
• “Two Lawrence people who are much interested in that long, dusty column of American soldiers which is pushing southward from Columbus, New Mexico, are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Osborn, for they have a son, E. L. Osborn of the Seventh hospital corps, with the punitive expedition. Sergeant Osborn has been for two years stationed at Fort Sam Houston. He was ordered with his command to Columbus to join the expedition into Mexico. A hastily written postcard from Columbus was the last word his father heard from his son. ‘Don’t be surprised if you don’t hear from me again for a long time,’ Sergeant Osborn wrote, ‘for I am going south with the expedition from here.’ He mentioned the destruction that had been wrought in Columbus, New Mexico, by the Villa raiders. ‘This town was certainly fired up and shot up,’ the brief message said. E. L. Osborn formerly carried papers for the Journal-World.”
• “Those who saw Isaac Lemon Baker walking about the streets of Lawrence, attending to his business affairs, and taking an active interest in everything that was going on, could not realize that he was 87 years old but he was born July 10, 1828, and would have been eighty-eight years old in a few months. Lawrence was only three years old when Mr. Baker settled on a farm in Willow Springs township, three miles west of Baldwin. There he lived for many years…. Mr. Baker died at 8 o’clock this morning after a short illness and Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Geo. E. Walk, and his son Lemon Baker, of Willow Springs, were at his bedside when the summons came.”