Kaysville Kinks #31 William Lauder Payne and Catherine Louise Nichols Payne

DECEMBER 1892

- The snow that visited us on Thanksgiving is still with us, but hardly sufficient to cause the jingle of the sleigh bell to be heard in the land.

-- Our UP agent Paul Thomassen was called to Logan as a witness against 3 jail birds he assisted in capturing here last week.

-- Miss Sarah Barnes and William Love embarked on a blissful sea of matrimony on Thursday. Justice T. H. Phillips officiated.

-- Trading has been very dull considering the Christmas season.

-- Mrs Rachel Mansell Barton wife of Frank Barton took her flight to the realms beyond. She was only 27 years old. Leaves to mourn her husband and 2 small children.

-- W. S. Barnes, son of J. R. Barnes left his home Friday for a mission to Great Britain.

-- Mrs Reise, the Temperance lecturess spoke to an audience of 40 people here last evening.

​-- Our enterprising merchant H. J. Sheffield has a large new brick store on Main Street nearly completed. It is being done up in tip top style.

-- "Zamloch The Magnificent" skipped out Monday for reasons unknown, failing to fulfill his engagements here. No loss to the community.

--A Grand Leap Year ball will be given at the Music Hall. It will be sponsored by the World's Fair Columbian Women's Club.

-- Exercises were held at the Presbyterian Chapel. A Christmas tree, on which a present for each child was placed.

-- The holiday amusement season opened last evening with dances at William's Hall and Webster's Pavilion.

-- William L. Payne one of our oldest residents, passed peacefully from this world of care. He had been ill for about a week, but realized his approaching end and was prepared for the grim messenger of death.

​PHOTO: William Lauder Payne (1816-1892) with wife Catherine Louise Nichols Payne circa 1850. Courtesy of Ancestry.