From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 1, 1915:

• “‘We want a non-skid sidewalk.’ So read a sign left by Halloween celebrators after they had torn up about twenty-five feet of the brick walk leading east on Fourteenth street, between Louisiana and Ohio streets, late Saturday night. Had it not been for the fact that a citizen who lives in the neighborhood saw the gang at work and reported the matter to the police it is probable that the whole walk would have been torn up, as about ten men were working as fast as they could…. The police car reached the scene shortly before midnight but no trace of the marauders except the sign and the destroyed walk was visible. The walk which leads down what is probably the steepest hill in the city, has been unpopular for years. It is constructed of vitrified brick and has been worn down by the feet of many students until it is of icy slipperiness. Many people have fallen on it because of this condition and threats have often been made that the walk would be torn up. University students are accustomed to walk in the rough brick street to avoid the walk.”
• “Their gymnasium training stood four young women, students of the University, in good stead, yesterday afternoon, when they were locked in the Administration building at closing-up time. The women had entered the building to look at some of the exhibits, while on a Sunday afternoon walk, and were engrossed in admiration of the paintings on the fourth floor when the janitor locked the doors. As darkness came on the co-eds decided that they had better go home, but, to their dismay, they found that the doors of the building were securely locked. All of the offices were locked too, and there was no way to get to a telephone. Just as they had decided that they were going to have to spend the night in the building, one of the girls thought of trying to climb out of the window in the basement. By dint of a few of the simple stunts that they had been taught in the gymnasium, all of them succeeded in escaping by this means.”
• “Arguing that war is incompatible with the spirit of Christianity the members of the Lawrence Ministerial Alliance this morning passed a resolution asking Congress to make no increase in the present armament of the United States. A copy of the resolution will be sent to Congressman Joseph Taggart of the Second District.”
• “Masquerading as suffering and stranded Belgians, a party of five peddlers covered a part of Douglas county last week and succeeded in disposing of goods. The refugee deception worked with a good many people and many of the orders for goods were given only for the purpose of ‘helping’ the supposed victims of the war. The game played by the peddlers was well calculated to work on the sympathies of people. The women in the party wept when their sufferings were described by the men peddlers. All professed to be able to speak only a little English. They had just arrived in this country, they said. They had with them some goods which were all they had been able to save out of what they had owned in Belgium. These they would sell from necessity – genuine Belgian goods…. The plan worked in a number of places in the country, but when business men learned that the peddlers were making their headquarters in Lawrence and hiring livery rigs every day to drive into the country, they started an investigation. The result showed that the supposed Belgians were just common peddlers who had hit upon a new gag to arouse the sympathy of the public and sell goods. They left when they were threatened with prosecution.”