From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 2, 1908: “Well, Leap Year is here and a lot of disappointed old bachelors are standing idly around wondering why the rush hasn’t begun. : The annual New Year’s YMCA reception was held yesterday and the crowds were big and the events were enjoyable and tasteful. : Those who started a boom to get our W.R. Stubbs to run for governor rather than bid for the U.S. Senate. Williams Allen White, the Emporia editor, says, “Kansas needs Stubbs and needs him now.” . . . Col. M.M. Murdock, postmaster of Wichita and editor of the Wichita Eagle, died early this morning after an illness of two weeks.”