From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 6, 1916:

• “After some delay, the work of pouring concrete for the Locust street paving was started by Contractor A. R. Young this morning with an outfit of about twenty workmen. The concrete work will be followed up by bricklaying as soon as possible and before a great while longer Locust street will be the best highway for travel in North Lawrence. The contractor figures that with good weather the seven blocks of concrete work can be completed in about three weeks. The work will be rushed with all possible speed. Mr. Young holds the contract for placing concrete between the ties of the interurban road, and the street will be finished up as the workmen progress, ready for the placing of the brick…. For the time that the paving is under construction, the hauling of freight for the bridge work by the interurban road will be restricted to the early morning hours. The plan followed will be to collect the interurban freight cars at the entrance to town and to haul them over Locust street only between the hours of 3 and 7 o’clock a.m. This will give the concrete work time to set sufficiently so that it will not crack, the engineers say.”
• “One of the finest events in connection with the meeting of the Kansas Editorial association in Lawrence this week was the banquet given in honor of the visitors last night in the Masonic Temple by the Merchants and Farmers association. There was a lot of friendly talk. The editors learned how Lawrence people appreciate editors and their endeavors, and the business men were told how the editors appreciate the entertainment they received at Lawrence.
• “There was some excitement this morning when A. D. Weaver’s Cadillac car, which has been left standing at the corner of Eighth and Massachusetts streets, was missed. A hasty conclusion was drawn that the car had been stolen and the machinery of the law was set in motion to recover it. Before a great while, however, it was learned that an employe of Mr. Weaver had driven the car away to wash it, and the minions of the law were called off at once.”
• “An engineering party of half a dozen men under the direction of Otto Dingelstedt will lay out the lines of the newly organized Clinton-Wakarusa drainage district next week. E. H. Dunmore was asked by the drainage board to draw up plans for the improvement contemplated, and will work out the plans from the investigations of the engineers next week. The men who will make up the party are expecting a fine week out in the Rock Creek country. It will take about a week of hard work to run the lines about twenty miles in length, but the work will lie in a fine country for camping out.”
• “Dorman O’Leary, a Lawrence boy, blossomed out as a real Jayhawker track star in yesterday’s Kansas-Nebraska dual meet. Not only did he lower the McCook field track record for the quarter mile made in 1905 by McCoy, but he won the 220-yard dash, an event which the dopesters had accorded to Nebraska. Kansas won the meet handily, 68 to 41.”