From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 17, 1915:

• “Foreshadowing an unprecedented increase in the price of drugs which already had quadrupled since the beginning of the war in Europe, a druggist jobbing salesman in Lawrence received a wire from his house today notifying him to stop quotations entirely on glycerine and quinine. Not only is an increase in price imminent, but the question will shortly be one of getting a supply of the drugs at all, in the opinion of this salesman…. The inquiries indicate that the visible supply of these chemicals is becoming exhausted, and that it will shortly be necessary to gather up all that can be procured and use them only for the most necessary purposes. This indicates also that the price at which they will be sold will be almost prohibitive and will be much higher than were ever heard of before…. That drugs used in the hospitals are taking the same upward course indicates the terrible destruction and maiming of life which the war is leaving in its wake.”
• “It has often been said that force of habit becomes second nature to a person. And so it is with Andrew T. Barker of Leavenworth, who would like to go back on his run as conductor on the Leavenworth branch of the Union Pacific. Only the rules of the railroad, which pays Mr. Barker a liberal pension, keeps him from reporting again for duty on the branch line where he was a conductor for thirty-eight years. Mr. Barker, a resident of Leavenworth since 1867, will soon celebrate his 76th birthday. For over 45 years he had been engaged in railroading and during that period he served the Union Pacific railroad for over 40 years. Mr. Barker is the only retired railroad conductor in Leavenworth and each month he receives a liberal pension from the Union Pacific Company. Over the entire Union Pacific system there were few men as well known as Mr. Barker…. During the many years Mr. Barker had charge of the branch train he hauled thousands of Leavenworth city and county young men and women who attended the state university at Lawrence. ‘They all knew me as “Mr. Barker” and although I had seen them many times each year I knew the names of but a few.'”
• “Four case of scarlet fever were reported Saturday in the family of Frank Bryant, who lives across the river from Eudora, in the Fall Leaf neighborhood, and Frank Roe, a son-in-law of the Bryants, is sick with the same trouble at his home east of Eudora. As the result of these cases the public schools at Eudora were thoroughly fumigated Sunday and great precaution will be taken against the spread of the disease.”