From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 10, 1915:

• “A petition is being circulated today asking that the board of county commissioners change the location of the proposed bridge across the Kaw which is being advertised for bids now. The paper, which has been signed by several business men and citizens, asks that the new structure be placed in the same location as the present bridge and that the old bridge be moved to take care of the traffic during the construction of the new one. ‘It would cost us at least $7,000 to move the old bridge so that we could put the new one in its place, according to figures of the county engineer,’ said County Commissioner Gus Brune today…. ‘If these people were not satisfied with the location that we have decided upon they should have made their preference known before we had gone so far with our plans.’… The new bridge will stand just west of the present structure and will make a jog in Massachusetts street where it crosses the river. This is one of the objections to the place where it is going to be built, according to the petition signers, who say that it will cause accidents, and mar the appearance of the structure and the street. They believe that the bridge should be built in such a way that Massachusetts street will be a straight line across the river.”
• “The demonstration of the street flusher, for which the Board of City Commissioners adjourned at 10:30 o’clock this morning, proved that Lawrence has a street cleaning problem on its hands which is going to present some peculiar difficulties. The flusher this morning did not clean the streets satisfactorily, of that the commission is assured, and the amount of water that it uses is going to make the cost of operation high. However they have not reached the conclusion yet the flusher cannot be of use to the city, but will probably take no action on the matter at once.”
• “A Baldwin young man is evidently looking for trouble for he appealed to Sheriff Cummings today for a permit to carry a gun. The sheriff explained that neither he nor anyone else in the county could grant that right and that the man would have to trust to nature’s gifts to take care of himself.”
• “‘Bob’ Stewart, for twenty-three years a barber in this city, has sold his shop to two employees who have been with him for four or five years — C. W. Shaffer and Roy Rogers. Mr. Stewart is working at his trade in Atchison.”