• John G. Barnes has been laid up this week.  A mild case of la grippe, no doubt.
• Richard E. Eagan, county assessor and collector, was here yesterday rustling up delinquent taxpayers.
• The movement on foot to reorganize the Dramatic association is a very laudable one, and should be encouraged.
• W. W. Calder, the rustling salesman of the Z.C.M.I., Salt Lake city, was flying around among our merchants yesterday.
• The weather so far this winter has not been so cold as in previous years. The thermometer so far has only once reached nine degrees below zero.  The snow is unusually deep.
• The question “Resolved that England has done more to colonize America than France,” will be discussed in the Historical and Debating club next Monday evening.  All invited.
• The young boy Joseph Layton, who was knocked off the track by the south bound Utah Central train yesterday afternoon, mention of which appeared in this morning’s HERALD, was brought here and is being taken care of by his grandmother, Mrs. Sarah B. Layton.  Dr. Richards came up from Salt Lake city last evening and said he was suffering from a compound fracture of the ankle, and it is feared other internal injuries.  The young boy, it appears, was crossing the track, and being a little deaf did not hear the approaching train until he and his horse were struck by it and whirled from the track.  At last accounts he was resting as comfortably as could be expected.  It is alleged the horse was killed.
• The performance of the Haley Comedy and Dramatic company last Monday evening, was what is commonly known as a “snide.”  The acting in the drama “The Blacksmiths Oath”, was disgustingly poor, and the comedy which followed was even worse, the jokes being mildewy with age.  Throughout the whole performance there was not one redeeming feature.  It was alleged two of the company were suffering from la grippe, and if the whole company had been suffering with the same fashionable disease, Kaysville perhaps would not have been so bady scooped. It seems a pity that the Kaysville public should be so badly imposed upon by these worthless troops, but it is a foregone conclusion there is not a good entertainment to be held here unless given by a home company.
• Mr. William Stewart, who ranks among the oldest settlers, to-day reached the sixty-sixth milestone in life.  His grandchildren, about twenty-three in number, remembered the occasion and made their grandpa the victim of a very neat little surprise.  By stratagem they got into the house and located themselves in the parlor.  When all was in readiness Mr. Stewart was sent for, as some very urgent business required his attention in that part of the house.  The old gentleman’s surprise may be better imagined than described, when on entering the room he was surrounded by so many grandchildren all clamoring to be the first to wish him many happy returns of the day.  When this excitement was over his grandson C. Burton jr., in behalf of the others, presented him with a gold-headed cane, with his name, day of the month and year inscribed thereon.  After this a sleigh ride was proposed, so grandpa and grand-children took a ride in a huge sleigh around the town.  When he returned there was another surpaise awaiting him.  During his absence the other members of his family had been busily engaged spreading the tables with everything that the heart could desire, and about1 o’clock they sat down to a repast that did ample credit to the occasion.  The double surprise will be something never to be forgotten and his many friends join with his children and grandchildren in wishing him many happy returns of the day.
• Last night the grocery store of Heber J. Sheffield was burglarized. The burglars gained an entrance by knocking a board from the back part of the building, which enabled them to reach the lock of the door and gain admittance.  The front of the till was wrenched off, the slide drawer taken out, and relieved of its contents, about eight dollars in small change and a number of postage stamps.  Among other things taken was quite an amount of cigarettes and tobacco, amounting to about fifteen dollars in all.  The parties appear to have done their work with an old American I.X.L. razor which they left on the counter.  They can get the razor any day by applying to H. J. Sheflield.  The burglary is supposed to be the work of tramps, as there were some seen in the neighborhood in the evening, one having the audacity to draw a pistol on a party of young boys who were sleigh riding.  K. KAYSVILLE, Jan. 24.

Sources

• Kaysville Kinks, Salt Lake Herald Republican, January 28, 1890, page 6