From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 8, 1914:

• “An ordinance providing for the systematic numbering of the houses in North Lawrence was passed by the commissioners in their regular meeting this morning. The ordinance provides Maple and Ninth streets as the base for numbering streets. This will be the official numbering and will supersede any previous numbering ordinance for the streets of North Lawrence…. Permission was granted to the Socialist club to hold their meetings in the council chamber in the City Hall…. Chris Armstrong who lives in the 400 block on Indiana appeared before the Commissioners and asked them to investigate the condition of the drainage facilities in that block. He said that of late there has been no care taken of the drainage there and that every time there was a heavy rain the lots were overflown. He expressed his desire to help in getting the condition righted there so that the water could run off more quickly and the lots not be injured by standing water. This matter was turned over to the commissioner of Public Utilities for investigation.”
• “A landlord appeared before the commissioners this morning and asked them what could be done for a family who were unable to pay their rent in a house which he owned. He said that the people were very prompt about paying the rent until the wife became ill and since that time he has not been able to collect the rent. They have been living in the house for about three months without paying any rent. He said that he would not put the people out as long as the woman was ill but that he would like to have a part of the rent. The commissioners said that they could do nothing for him as the city had nothing to do with the poor since the poor commissioner had been appointed.”
• “In response to a feeling among the land-ladies that sororities drew away their roomers just after the beginning of the fall semester and left them with empty rooms on their hands for the remainder of the semester, one sorority has made a rule to the effect that no pledge can come into the society’s house until after the end of the first semester. Mrs. Eustace Brown, advisor of the women, was notified of the new move this morning and was very much pleased with it. ‘I hope that the rest of the girls will take similar action,’ she said. ‘It is evident that the land-ladies are put to considerable loss by having girls taken away from them just after school begins when it is doubly difficult to get the rooms filled again.'”
• “George B. Stanley, a first year student at the University, had a narrow escape from death, or certain injury, last night, when the motorcycle he was riding down Adams [14th Street] hill struck an obstruction and skidded, throwing him nearly thirty feet. He sustained only minor injuries to his face and head, and was able to repair the motorcycle, and ride home. When the machine, travelling at a speed of nearly 25 miles an hour down the hill, crossed Ohio street, the front wheel seemed, to bystanders, to have struck a high brick in the paving. The jolt following broke the upright supporting the handlebars, and Stanley lost control.”