• Mud and water are the only plentiful articles in our midst.
• Royal C. Barnes leaves here on Monday to accept a position in the Deseret National bank.
• The merchants are all getting in a large stock of Christmas goods. Heber J. Sheffield is the first to come to the front, and remind the people of its near approach with a nice display of goods in his windows.
• The young men of this town anticipate organizing a literary and debating society next Monday evening.
• Barnes & Layton expect to open their new billiard hall in the near future.
• The steady growth of our town has necessitated our having two mails per day, this is something that has long been needed and is appreciated by all.
• Quarterly conference for the stake will be held here on Sunday and Monday, December 8 and 9.
• The following article appeared in the Tribune last Sunday: “An old Mormon of fifty years’ standing, a resident of Kaysville, got himself into trouble by selling some of his property to a Liberal lately. He was in need of money and got a better price for his property than any Saints would give him, but this being against the wish of the priesthood there, the old man was called up before the congregation and compelled to ask pardon and express sorrow for having sold his inheritance to an ungodly outsider. It would be difficult to difficult to convince William Payne that there is no church and state union in Mormonism, providing, of course, if he dare have or express an opinion on that subject.” In answer to the above we wish to state it is absolutely false. Mr. Payne, since he first settled here many years ago, never sold or offered for sale any piece of his property, nor was he ever taken to task by the ward authorities or compelled to get up before the congregation to ask pardon and express sorrow for any of his business transactions whether it be with an ungodly outsider or otherwise. On Sunday October 24, Mr. Payne asked permission to make an acknowledgment for an offense he had committed in imbibing too freely in liquor. The acknowledgment was made voluntarily and was a surprise to the bishop and a great majority of the people present. This is all the people here know of Mr. Paynes business transactions with “ungodly outsiders.” If the Tribunes informer will tell us where the piece of property is he claims so recently changed hands, and then have Mr. Payne make an affidavit to the effect that he did sell and that he made public confession for doing so, we will believe it; until then we will have to consider it what we think it to be, a base fabrication. K. KAYSVILLE, Dec. 7.

Sources

• Kaysville Kinks, Salt Lake Herald Republican, December 8, 1889, page 2