From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for August 20, 1914:

• “The new traffic ordinance for the congested streets of town goes into effect tomorrow morning and after this violators of the traffic ordinance will be taken care of by the police…. The ordinance provides that the driver of any vehicle warn those behind by some sign when slowing down, turning or backing. The police, fire department, U. S. mail vehicles and ambulances have the right of way on the street. Automobiles stopped on the street must be left standing at an angle of 45 degrees with the curb. All vehicles must draw up to the side of the street when the fire alarm is sounded or an ambulance is seen and motormen must stop their cars until the apparatus has passed. Street cars have the right of way except in cases just mentioned. No vehicle is allowed to stop on any main street for the purpose of discharging freight where there is an alley accessible…. No horse may be left standing unless they be securely tied, hitched or unhitched. Vehicles unloading coal, ice and such freight must be unloaded from the side and head in the direction of the traffic as far as possible…. In the operation of a motor car the muffler must always be kept closed. Great amounts of smoke emitting from the exhaust of a motor are unnecessary for any length of time and are forbidden. Every bicycle, motorcycle and automobile must have some kind of gong, bell, or horn in good working condition so that ample warning to pedestrians can be given, Unnecessary sounding of the signal is forbidden…. No person under fourteen years of age nor any intoxicated person will be allowed to operate a motor driven machine…. The speed limit in this congested districts is twelve miles an hour and in all other streets and alleys the speed limit is 20 miles.”
• “Mayor Francisco said this morning that the garbage collection in order to be made a success must be done by official collectors as they make their regular rounds and the collecting is done in a systematic way and where the people permit anyone who wants to to come in and collect the garbage it is not done at regular periods of time and in many cases it is allowed to stand too long and becomes a menace. The mayor thinks the people should watch the collectors and see that no one except the official collector be permitted to haul garbage away.”
• “The Haskell boys are busy filling the three silos at school with green corn. These silos hold about 125 tons apiece. Work was begun last Thursday, and one was filled by the end of the week. This week the boys have started on the two remaining. They have the most modern equipment with which to work including the largest size ensilage cutter which cuts about ten tons and hour. This is new this year. The crop this year of corn has been immense. It seems to have been a particularly favorable season for it, and the yield has been at least twelve to fourteen tons to the acre, which is five or six tons more than the usual yield. The school has bout ninety acres in field corn, and of this amount about thirty-five acres will be used for the silo.”
• “Yesterday in the meeting of the State Charter Board while charters were being granted to the various newly organized corporations the Lawrence Country Club was also granted a charter. The Club has been incorporated at $30,000 which was the third largest stock value of the corporations seeking charters.”
• “Kansas City, Mo. — Nemo, the bear that escaped from Swope Park two weeks ago by the scaling of a twenty foot wall, was killed while bathing in Lake Mount Washington cemetery. Joseph Laisister, a member of a party of volunteer hunters who organized after the bear had terrorized the neighborhood, fired the fatal shot.”