KAYSVILLE KINKS - #97 IN SERIES - JANUARY 1899

KAYSVILLE KINKS - #97 IN SERIES - JANUARY 1899

• The Dewey Club Sleighing party was abandoned because of the disappearance of the snow during the thaw.
• Mr. Davis, the new pastor, preached his 1st sermon at the Presbyterian Church.
• The mail sack was accidently cut in half on Monday and a large number of papers were cut to pieces.
• George Galbraith, a brother of the late Jane W. Blood, drank carbolic acid by mistake which terminated in his death 20 minutes later. The bottle was mislabeled, he thought he was drinking "laudanum." (a narcotic pain killer prepared with opium)
• Reports to the City Council showed 4 criminal cases in 1898 and 2 civil cases. There were 35 interments in the Kaysville Cemetery. No contagious diseases reported.
• William H. Strong, the painter, has just completed 4 nice landscape paintings on glass which are to be sent to South Weber as presents.
• The Dewey Club gave a pleasant social in Williams Hall in honor of George H. Blood who leaves next week on a mission to Samoa.
• Galbraith and Beazer have just received 3 car loads of Kemerer nut sized coal (size of coconuts) Come down and try it, it is "HOT" stuff.
• PHOTO: Kaysville City Business License for Galbraith and Beazer - Coal Dealers Corner of Cherry (200 N) and 7th Street (Main). For the term of 12 months commencing 11-10-1898. - Kaysville Fruit Heights Museum, Linda Ross Collection