From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 28, 1916:

• “For the first time in the history of the Lawrence high school, free commencement exercises will be held Friday, June 2. This was decided at a meeting of the board of education held last night for the purpose of considering this question. The admission to the exercises will be upon the presentation of tickets which will be secured from Superintendent Smith or Principal Olney…. It is probable that each member of the senior class will be given tickets for their relatives with the privilege of first reservations. This plan was discussed but left to the committee for final action. The senior class will defray the expenses of the theater building. The money for this purpose will come from the funds received from the presentation of the senior play…. For years the plan of a free commencement has been discussed by the board. While part of the body were unable to see the justice of having people pay to see their children and friends graduate, others argued that any one who wanted to see a graduating exercise was willing enough to pay the 25-cent fee which has heretofore been charged.”
• “Thirty of the larger post offices in the state of Kansas will be represented at the annual convention of the Post Office Clerks Association which will be held in Lawrence tomorrow…. Advocacy of the retirement bill for post office clerks, which is now before Congress, will be the main thing considered in the business session at Ecke’s hall tomorrow afternoon.”
• “A Saturday evening raid by the police netted a barrel of beer, five young men, and Sam Childs, who is at present in the city jail. A liquor selling charge will be brought against him. The police made the raid on Childs’ premises in North Lawrence before the evening’s festivities had got well started, they say. But five young men who were anxious to get in on the ground floor were there and were picked up by the police. They put up bonds of $20 each to appear when the case is called, and will be used as witnesses against Childs.”
• “It is probable that a chapter in the history of education in Kansas will be completed with the voting on the establishing of a rural high school at Vinland which was commenced when in 1915 the legislature made such a school possible. Vinland and surrounding community will vote June 1 on the question of establishing a rural high school, and friends of the movement who have been in Lawrence recently are of the opinion that the election will carry.”