Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-10-03
POST-OFFlCE NAMES.
Odd C0gnomens Bestowed Upon Some
Newly Created Offices.

Odd C0gnomens Bestowed Upon Some
Newly Created Offices.
Naming a post-office is like naming
child-there is no accounting for the
taste dislayed in the name selected.
Usually the post-office is named after
the town, and when the town is started
some enterprising citizen gets in his
deadly work and 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 are good,
others bad; some long and some short.
but there seems to be general disre-
gard of the proprieties in the selection
of names. For instance, Happy Camp
is the name of newly-created post
office in California, and the probable
ties are that the inhabitants are con.
stantly 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 a
village at the bottom of two-hun-
dred-foot hill than to be near mount
ain, while Marble Cliff is very remote
from marble quarry.
Passing events also help decide the
names of places, and with the Johns
town horror fresh jim the public mind
many smaller towns will select that
name to emphasize the establishment
of the place.
Peace and Cain arc two villages
where post-offices have been estah'
lished in Alabama, while Rat, Rye
and Urbanity have been discontinued.
Sassafras is the name of spicy
Arkansas village, while people who
desire to go to new postal station in
Alaska will have to have their letters
addressed to Belkofsky. Californi;
has choice collection of new names
Bitter Water, Calabasa, Orosi an(
Simioplis make a splendid quartette
Tourtelotte and Bovina are Colorado
offices. Dakota, as becomes newly
admitted State, is selecting name
for its now offices from among thos,
who advocated its admission, and il
getting rid OF its old Territorial
names, reminiscent as they were will
the names bestowed by cow-puncher
whose idea of the ridiculous was yer,
keen.
The warm climate of Georgia boast
OF an Arctic town, while Sinker is tn
name of village in Idaho.
| The people of Illinois were so gla'
to get new postal facilities that the,
did not stop to complete the names
and sent them out as Lis and Mac
Nail and Cheek are two villages in tn
Indian Territory. Fritz, Snyder an
McBrayer represent the ruling popu
lation in three Kentucky places. Chin
is located in Michigan, and Minnesot
boasts of its short Line Park. Mis-
, souri, contains Last and Clio. Rate
is in Nebraska, while Redstone take
it's name from the granite hills of Ne
Hampshire. New York is provide
, with Best, an Echo and Jayvill,
Stem and Wharf are the names OF tw
post-oflices in North Carolina, an
Scrub Ego and Twin have Ohio wri
) ten after them on envelopes.
t Ale and Joy, while both are in Or,
, gdn, are not in the same county, an
= there is no connection between tn
: two. Peach Tree, Early, Orphan
: Home and Venus are in Texas. Elk
0 and Joe are in the neighboring Stat
of Virginia, and Washington has
newly-created small post-office Gale
Nickel, while Fossil and Shell con
plete the list for Wyoming. Washin'
ton Post.