From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 26, 1916:

• “Waking in her room in her father’s home at 828 Louisiana street at 3:30 o’clock this morning, Miss Fern Emmons, a freshman at the University, saw a strange man kneeling beside her bed. ‘Keep still, Puss, don’t move,’ the man whispered. The whispered words made Miss Emmons wide awake…. She screamed and her father, W. W. Emmons, answered from another part of the house and hurried to the room. The intruder leaped out the window by which he had entered and ran swiftly. Mr. Emmons reached the window in time to see the retreating figure. He fired two shots from his revolver at it, but neither took effect. Mr. Emmons called the police station promptly and officers were on the ground in a short time. In the alley between Indiana and Louisiana streets they started up a man out of the darkness near a shed. Two officers ran him, and as he disregarded a command to halt they started firing. Four shots were discharged, but all of them missed and the man escaped after the officers had given him a hard chase…. The night police force spent the rest of the night after the alarm in searching the west part of town for the prowler, but it was a fruitless search.”
• “Students planning to take courses in the summer session at the University of Kansas, will not find the time dragging heavy on their hands, according to Dean F. J. Kelly, director of the summer session and professor of Education. ‘Prospective summer session students often feel that work during the summer months will be extremely irksome,’ says Dean Kelly, ‘so to offset this we are this year adding numerous recreative and entertaining features. Students desiring to take a daily swim may do so either in the gymnasium pool, or in Potter lake, on the campus…. Fine boating may be had on the Kaw river, above the dam. The University is located ideally for summer work, as a breeze is always found here on Mt. Oread. Those who are athletically inclined may have access to the gymnasium, with its apparatus for both men and women. The student coming to the University for six weeks’ work, will find a pleasant summer’s outing combined with his educational work.'”
• “While the High school was holding special chapel exercises this morning to convince the board of education that the present auditorium was wholly inadequate to care for the High school’s needs, two boys fainted on account of the crowded condition of the room…. They were taken into the open air and quickly recovered after the application of some water. The heat of the day and crowd which prevented a free circulation of air was responsible for the occurrence. Besides this extemporaneous proof that a new auditorium was essential, several prepared demonstrations were put on by the students.”
• “The barber shop of W. F. Weise at 727 Massachusetts street was broken into last night, and the disturbed condition of the shop when the owner entered it later indicated that the thief had conducted a painstaking search for money. According to Mr. Weise he found none. Nothing whatever was missed from the shop this morning.”