From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 5, 1915:

• “A card index of law violators is the system Police Judge Henry Albach uses to keep track of his friends who often visit his court. The cards are arranged alphabetically and give the record of each person that appears in the court, with the charge, the decision, and the amount of the fine or the number of days imprisonment. In this way the judge is able to tell by glancing over his files just what the defendant merits in the way of punishment and to adjust his sliding scale of fines for drunkenness. The M’s and the G’s constitute the largest number of law violators. Several other letters are not represented at all.”
• “The rumor that the K. U. football team will play an open game this year was confirmed last night by the statement of Herman Olcott, the new coach, who arrived in Lawrence yesterday afternoon and who went out to McCook field this morning to survey the field on which future struggles on the gridiron will take place. Mr. Olcott said that he had been told that the game as had been played here was more of the old style method and that he proposed to use the forward pass extensively. He will also open up the kicking department of the game and develop it. While developing a strong offensive he plans to rely chiefly on the defensive style of football.”
• “James Naismith, head of the department of physical education at K. U. and the inventor of basketball, received very severe injuries while at the recent encampment at Leavenworth. While riding a horse he was thrown from it, suffering internal injuries. He has been very sick for the past few days and has had a trained nurse constantly taking care of him. Dr. Naismith was one of the chaplains of the first regiment at the encampment.”
• “Today was completed the last stretch of ‘bad road’ to be found in Grant township. It lies in the highway leading directly north from Dicker’s store, in North Lawrence, and comprises two stretches considerable distance apart. This is the end of the reputation Grant township has had of having the worst roads in the county, or at least more of them. The reputation was not deserved by several comparisons that might be made, but the opening of the road described above today is the beginning of the making of another reputation by Grant. Largely this has been the result of the untiring efforts and good judgment of Trustee A. A. Hicks.”
• “Even though the banner season for weed growing is supposed to be past, still the city officers receive many complaints from property owners in various parts of the city about the nuisance. When a complaint is made the city officials notify the owner of the property to cut the weeds. If he does not do it the work is done by city employees and the bills charged up to the tax against the land. The wet season has made the weed pest particularly bad.”
• “A bill to compel Rock Island trains to stop at Lawrence was introduced in the last session of the legislature, but did not reach a vote. Parents of University students living in the northwest portion of the state were strongly in favor of it.”