From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 10, 1916:

• “Wiedemann’s, the Lawrence confectionery store, which is better known among University students than the names of some of the University buildings, changed ownership yesterday. William Wiedemann disposed of the business to Mrs. Ida E. Pollock of 1021 Rhode Island street, who will be represented in the active management of the business by J. F. Harris and W. H. Harris, her brothers. The new managers took charge of the store today. ‘The name of the store will continue to be “Wiedemann’s,”‘ said J. F. Harris today. ‘The present force of employes will remain, and every effort will be made to keep the business on the high plane it has occupied in the past.’… Mr. Wiedemann has retired from active business after having been in active charge of his store for forty-eight years. In 1868 he went into business with his father in Lawrence, and later succeeded to sole control. Through all the time he has been in business his confectionery store has stood for the best quality in goods and the best of service. It is this record of service that the new owners expect to maintain.”
• “Ed Armstrong was arrested last night by police officers when he arrived in Lawrence from Kansas City with a suit box filled with liquor. When asked what the box contained he stated that he had been buying clothes. An examination of the box revealed five quarts of whiskey. ‘That isn’t fair,’ said Armstrong. ‘I only bought four quarts and here they’ve gone and given me five.’ A complaint was issued in the county attorney’s office this morning charging him with having violated the prohibitory law…. Armstrong is detained at the county jail awaiting arraignment. He has been employed as a laborer on the new bridge.”
• “H. H. Walker, state drainage engineer, came down from Manhattan yesterday and spent the day going over the old river bed and the sloughs in the eastern half of Grant township…. The residents of the east half of the township are looking for better protection from overflows, and for a way of draining the old river bed and the low places adjacent to it. A government survey covering the subject was made some years ago, but difficulty has been experienced in getting through some of the lands it will be necessary to cross in carrying out the government plan. The state drainage engineer was asked to look over the ground and see if a different plan is feasible.”
• “Signers of the Elm street paving petition in North Lawrence have engaged R. E. Melvin as their attorney to protest against the action of the city commission in passing a resolution to do the paving before the petition had been reported on and considered.”
• “Miss Marguerite Austin, English violinist, ranks with the best. Her technique is faultless, her expression superb and her spirit infectious. At the Presbyterian church tonight.”
• “Topeka. — C. I. Martin, Adjutant General of the Kansas National Guard, in a letter to Governor Capper today recommended the establishment of an automobile reserve corps in connection with the militia of the state. The plan contemplates that owners of pleasure cars shall offer their machines for use in time of need. General Martin’s letter was in reply to a request of Governor Capper, whose endorsement of a similar national plan had been asked.”