From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 8, 1915:

• “One of the professional schools at the University of Kansas, which will open for its regular session next week, is anticipating work this year under less discouraging conditions than were encountered last year. The school of engineering will continue its training of young men for that profession without the handicap of a situation in which engineers all over the country are out of jobs. Such was the case last year when the University began work. Under the sudden demoralizing effects of war conditions the engineering business went to smash. How well it has recovered is indicated by the fact that in Kansas there is a demand for civil engineers that at present can’t be filled. The professors of the engineering school have daily calls for men, but no men to send out to fill the jobs…. With the increase in the number of municipal water plants, sewage disposal plants and the like, in the state, the faculty members of the engineering school see building for the future a demand for trained engineers that will require more men permanently than the engineering profession has ever supported in Kansas up to this time. The condition is not confined to Kansas, either…. The boy who studies engineering this year will be encouraged by the belief that there is a job waiting for him to take as soon as he knows enough to fill it.”
• “Raiding melon patches is not the hilarious sport it once was for four Lawrence youths who were arrested by county officers today on complaint of property owners near Lake View. The officers made a successful pursuit where the owners of the patch had failed to develop enough speed and brought the boys into town. The boys, who are all under age, will appear before Juvenile Judge C. E. Lindley tomorrow morning.”
• “The big season ticket sale to the Douglas county fair is on, and the board of directors hope to be able to dispose of 5,000 of them before the gates swing open for the first day of the fair. This hope is particularly strong since the price of the season ticket was cut from $1.50 to $1, an action which was taken by the directors a week ago…. Entries of all sorts in the fair exhibits continue unabated, at a rate which gives the fair promoters cause for entire satisfaction with the outlook. In livestock showing the fair will approximate the old Bismarck days.”
• “A notable sign of the times is the fact that the sporting goods dealers are making special appeals to the patronage of the rural schools in sporting goods. A few years ago there was mighty little sporting paraphernalia sold in the country schools. Now it is a poor school that doesn’t have at least a basket ball court.”
• “India School, District No. 55, opened for the year’s work yesterday. Miss Helen Brown is the teacher, and there are twenty-nine pupils enrolled. A flag given by the Ladies of the G. A. R. floats above the school.”
• “Activity on the Lawrence streets was suspended by a heavy shower which began at 3:45 o’clock this afternoon.”
• “Holiness tabernacle meetings will begin tonight in Mrs. Sarah Pugh’s Grove east of the Model school house. Old time gospel preaching and good music is promised those who attend.”