Kaysville Kinks – A Brief History

Are you curious about Kaysville Kinks? What is it exactly?  Where did it originate?  Was it an article?  If yes, in what publication(s)?  When did it start?  When did it end?  All good questions to be sure, and answers I had to find for myself when creating this Kaysville Kinks webpage.

The best information unearthed, originates from the University of Utah website Utah Digital Newspapers.
Kaysville Kinks first appears in the Salt Lake Herald Republican newspaper dated July 28, 1889, on page 4, column 4, under the heading Territorial Topics.  The topics are conveniently listed in alphabetical order, and the Kaysville Kinks is comfortably nestled between “Heber Happenings” and the “Manti Matters” write-ups.

The Kaysville Kinks articles were published sporadically in the early days, presumably as noteworthy news dictated.  Or, perhaps when the allotted newspaper space had made its way through the alphabet and back to the letter “K”.

The Salt Lake Herald Republican published regular Kaysville Kinks articles until December 7, 1892.
But along the way, an interloper, the Ogden Daily Standard, published its first “Kaysville Kinks” article on October 26, 1890, and again the following week on November 2, 1890.  The Ogden paper went on hiatus for a year until they published their final two Kaysville Kinks articles on December 12, 1891, and January 10, 1892, respectively.

Exactly 8 days after the Salt Lake Herald Republican ended its Kaysville Kinks articles, they re-appeared in the Davis County Clipper.  The “Clipper” was the most prolific publisher of Kaysville Kinks, amassing 1,556 articles until they finally ceased on or about June 13, 1930.

From its humble beginnings as a “territorial topic“, the Kaysville Kinks went on to be published in approximately 22 different publications including the Salt Lake Tribune, Morgan Post, Deseret News, Ogden Standard-Examiner, and the Weekly Reflex to name a few.

We have strived to keep the wording, spelling, and punctuation as it appeared in the original articles.  As it turns out that is no small task considering the spell-checkers and grammar-checking solutions of today.  We hope you enjoy reading some of the local history found in the articles.  If you read enough, you may even encounter the comical.  Check out the July 1, 1890 article wherein it reports:

“In view of the fact that Ogden and Salt Lake are to have such great attractions, the people of Kaysville have concluded not to celebrate the Fourth of July.”

We hope you enjoy learning more about our local history, and many of the names that had something to do with it.