Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-10-11
PosT-oFFIcE NAMES.
ODD COEnomOnS B0stoWod Upon
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Odd COHnomOnS B0stoWod Upon
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Naming post-office is like naming
a child-there L. no accounting for the
taste dislayed In the name selected.
Usually the post-offlce 10 named after
the town, and when the town is started
some enterprising citizen gets In his
deadly work md the town is named
after him. Others take their names
from surroundings and often from Incl
dents which happened when the site
was first selected. Some arc good,
others bad; some long and some short,
but there seems to be a general disre-
gard Of the proprieties in the selection
of names. For instance, Happy Camp
is tho name OF a newly-created post
office in California, and the probabili-
ties are that the inhabitants are con-
Dtantly fighting, and the only person
who is happy is the undertaken, who
is growing wealthy. Mountain View
Is more likely to be the name OF q
village ut the bottom of q two-hun-
dred-foot hill than to be near O mount
from marble quarry.
Passing events also help decide the
names OF places, and with the Johns
town horror fresh in the public mind
many smaller towns will select that
name to emphasize the establishment
Of the place.
Peace and Cain are two villages
whore poSt-offices have been estah-
lished in Alabama. while Rat, Rye
and Urbanity have been discontinued.
Sassafras is the name OF a spicy
Arkansas village, while people who
desire to go to a new postal station in
Alaska will have to have their letters
addressed to Belkofsky California
has choice collection of new names.
Bitter Water. Culabasa, Orosi and
Simioplis make n splendid quartette.
Tourtelotte and Bovina are Colorado
offices. Dakota, as becomes a newly
admitted State. is selecting names
for its new offices from among those
who advocated it's admission, and Is
getting rid of its old Territorial
names. reminiscent as they were with
the names bestowed by cow-punchers
whose idea Of the ridiculous was very
keen.
The warm climate of Georgia boasts
OF IN Arctic town, while Sinker is the
name OF a village in Idaho.
The people Of Illinois we're 80 glad
to get new postal facilities that they
did not stop to complete the names,
and sent them out as Lis and Mac.
Nail and Cheek are two villages in tho
Indian Territory. Fritz. Snyder and
McBrayer represent the ruling popu-
lation in three kentucky places. China
is located in Michigan, and Minnesota
boasts Of its short Line Park. Mis-
souri, contains Last and Clio. Raten
Is in Nebraska, while Redstone takes
It's name from the granite hills of New
Hampshire. New York is provided
with Best. an Echo and a Jayville.
Stem and Wharf are the names of two
Post-offices in North Carolina, and
cub. Ego and Twin have Ohio writ
ten after them on envelopes.
Ale and Joy, while both are in Ore
gon, are not in the same county, and
there ID no connection between the
two. Peach Tree, Early, Orphans
Home and Venus are in Texas. Exit
and Joe are In the neiShboring State
OF Virginia. and Washington has q
newly-created small post-office called
Nickel, while Fossil and Shell COM
plete the list for Wyoming.-Washing-
ton Post. .-..'