Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-14
OsT.0FFIcR NAMES.
ODD COGNoMENs BESTOWED UPON
SOME NEWLY CREATED OFFICES.

SOME NEWLY CREATED OFFICES.
Naming n post-Office is like nam
ing child-there is no accounting
for the taste displayed in the name
selected. Usually me pOst-Office
is named after the town, and when
the town is started, some en-
terprising citizen gets in his
deadly work and the town Is
named after him. Others take
their names from Surroundings
and often from incidents which
happened when the'site WIS first Sc
lected. Some are good, others bad;
some long and some short, but there
seems to be a general disregard OF
the prOprieties in the selection OF
names. For instance, Happy Camp
is the name Of a newly created post
office in California, and the prob
abilities are that the inhabitants are
constantly fighting, and the only
person who is happy is the under
laker, who is growing wealthy.
Mountain View is more likely 10 be
the name of a village at the bottom
Of a two-hundred-foOt hill than T.
be near a mountain, while Marble
Cliff is very remote from a marble
quarry.
Passing events also help 10 decide
the names Of places, and with the
JohnstOwn horror fresh in toe pub
lie mind many smaller towns viii
select that name TO emphasize the es-
Enlistment Of the place.
Peace and Cain are two villages
where post-ofiices are established IN
Alabama, while Rat, Rye and Ur-
bapity have been discontinued.
Sassafras is the name Of a spicy Ar
kansas village, while people who
desire to go to a new postal station
in Alaska will have TO have THEN
letters addressed TO Belkofsky. Cali
fornia has q choice selection OF
new names. Bitter Water, Calaba-
"a. GrUsi and SimiOpolis make a
splendid quartette. TOUrteIiotte
and Bovina are Colorado offices.
Dakota, as becomes n newly admit
ted State, is selecting names for it,
new offices from among those who
advocated its admission, and Is get
ting nd Of its old Territorial NAMES
reminiscent as they We're with the
names bestowed by cOx-punchers,
whose idea OF the ridiculous was
very keen.
The warm climate Of Georgia
boasts of an Arctic town, while
Sinker Is the name Of a village in
Idaho. ---. - .
The people of Illinois were so glad
to get the 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 viii
lagos in the Indian Territory. Fritz,
Snyder and McBrayer represent the
ruling population in three Ken
lucky places. China is located in
Michigan, and Minnesota boasts Of
its short Line Park. Missouri con-
tains Last and Clio. Raten is in
Nebraska, while Redstone takes its
name from the granite hills Of New
Hampshire. New York is provid-
ed with-a Best, an Echo and a Jay
vile. Stem and Wharf are the
names of two pOst-offices in North
Carolina, and Scrub, Echo and
Twin have Ohio written after them
on envelopes.
Ale and Joy, while both are in
Oregon, are not in the same county,
and there is no connection between
the two. Peach Tree, Early, Or
phan's Home and Venus are in
Texas. Exit and Joe are in the
neighboring State Of Virginia, and
Washington has a newly-created
small post-Office called Nickel, while
Fossil and Shell complete the list
for Wyoming.-Hdshi; gton Post.