From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 22, 1915:

• “Wedded life no longer has charms for Phronia Hill and she decided to break the bonds of matrimony which have held her to Charles Hill and has filed suit in the District Court for a divorce and custody of the couple’s three small children, Elberton, aged 13, Edith, aged 10, and Earl, aged 8 years. In her petition Mrs. Hill charges that her husband has continually beat and abused her, has cursed her and charged her with indecency, and has even tried and threatened to shoot her. At one time, she alleges in her petition, Mr. Hill shot at her with a rifle, which fortunately missed the mark, and threatened to take his own life. She alleges that she ran and came back to discover that he had cut his neck with a knife and tried to make her believe that he had shot himself. She further alleges that at the time they were married that she had a farm and other property in Westplains, Mo., and that the defendant had only $65. Mrs. Hill asks for a complete separation with custody of the children and a clear title to her land in North Lawrence. Mr. Hill was also married at the time he married her in Westplains in 1902, she alleges, and that his wife was living at the time, but she did not know it. Mr. Hill is a stove mender and is well liked by the people with whom he has done business. He is regarded as honest and reliable by them and they say that the charges in Mrs. Hill’s petition are almost unbelievable. The case will come up in the November term of district court.”
• “Many University men are spending the summer in the western harvest and are getting profitable training for the coming athletic season at the big Kansas school. Charley Greisa and Ray Folks are harvesting wheat near Colby, Kansas…. Edwin Dodge, who was a junior in college last year, has a wheat field of his own near Oakley, Kansas, and says that his crop is nearly all cut and is in good condition. There are several college men in this part of the state, Dodge writes, and the easterners have an awful time becoming accustomed to the work.”
• “A. P. Day of Brookton, Texas, arrived here yesterday. Eight years ago he moved from a farm in Clinton township to Texas, and admits he wishes he hadn’t. He has leased a farm near Linwood, and will move upon it as soon as he can get the dwelling thereon ready for occupancy.”
• “A. E. Blair’s plans for the new school house that will be built at Ozawkie have been accepted, and the contract made with an Oskaloosa firm of builders. The building will have three rooms…. The material will be of stucco covered frame. In ever respect this structure will be modern. For instance, practically all the light upon the desks will come from the left. It is so arranged that the two larger rooms can be thrown into one and used as an auditorium.”