​KAYSVILLE KINKS #107 IN SERIES - NOVEMBER 1899 Ruhamah (Ruby) Knowlton Burt (1878-1918)

​KAYSVILLE KINKS #107 IN SERIES - NOVEMBER 1899

• A deliberate attempt was made to burn down Swan and Sons Co. Saloon. Fires were kindled at both the rear and side doors of the building. The timely arrival of bartender Woolsey no doubt saved that and nearby buildings, the Proudfoot home, Barber shop and Confectionary and Hyrum Stewarts Mercantile store from being burned. There are two theories. The first one a woman driven to desperation because her husband is a frequent patron or the other theory is too indefinite and improbably to publicly comment on (what happened revealed in later series)
• Little Merlin Blood, son of John H. Blood fell on a crockery cup and broke it. Fragments of the broken crock entered just above the child's eye. Whether or not the sight of the eye will be injured cannot yet be told.
• Ward and Drummer made about 400,000 bricks this summer and have sold most of them.
• H. J. Sheffield's new store building is about completed and it is a neat place too. It is to be used for a granary and a ware room, but it has a regular store front with large glass windows.
• Hyrum Stewart has been troubled with sciatic rheumatism.
• Thomas Smith new residence is now about ready for the plasterers.
• Miss Ruby Knowlton, one of our teachers is still quite sick and it appears now like it will be two or three weeks before she can take her place in the school room.
• PHOTO: Ruhamah (Ruby) Knowlton Burt (1878-1918) In 1909 she married Andrew Howard Burt (1882-1955). She was killed in 1918 in an automobile accident.