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Show 'Old' Kaysville to be recalled KAYSVILLE - "Going down to the store (the Stewart-Burton General Store) when I was a small child was a real adventure," wrote Lucille B. Kennah in her history of the Stewart-Burton Store. "I'd cut through the school square, cross the Bamberger Bamber-ger track and find myself at the first point of interest - the John Barton Funeral Parlor. I always peered through the window in the door. There was a lace curtain there with a sizeable hole in it. Quite often there would be a corpse on the slab and a toe peeking out from under the sheet. "The next stop was Mary Jane Proudfoot's cute house with such intriguing things in the windows. ..Next was the saloon. I always ventured up at least one step to see what I could see-if the door was open." Kaysville at the turn of the century was very different from the city we visit today. The Kaysville-Layton Historical Histor-ical Society is sponsoring a special program that will turn back time about 80 years to the Kaysville Lucille B. Kennah remembers. On Tuesday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m Mary Talbot, re-' re-' 'search chairman for the Historical Society" will give an illustrated lecture tour of Kaysville, the stores and the people that ran them in 1900. The meeting will be held at the historic Presbyterian Church, 100 East and Center Street, Kaysville. Society members and the general public are invited. There is no charge. A special booklet describing the general stores of Layton and Kaysville will be available at the meeting. This is free to all Society members, a nominal charge to others. After the meeting, the booklet will be sold at the Layton. Heritage Museum. |