The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-06-30
ODD PUST OFFICE NAMES.
Curious Results Of Reform OF
the Postmaster Generals.

Curious Results Of q Reform Of
the Postmaster Generals.
Ingenuity Displayed In Some Sections In
the Selection Of Unique Names
Many Of Them Remark
ably Abbreviated.
Postmaster General Bissell wants
short names for new post Offices. Some
Of Mr.. Bissell's predecessors attempted
reforms in the direction Of post Office
nomenclature with rather curious re-
suits. When the residents of new
town in Missouri sent in their applica-
ton for post office several years ago
the name they suggested was not salts
factory to the department for some
reason.
Select another name,'' wrote the
postmaster general; something notso
common, something peculiar"
''All right" the applicants replied,
s'call it Peculiar And the mail bag
has gone to Peculiar, Cass county,
No." ever since.
If Mr.. Bisseu doesn't have run on
''Short" post offices during the coming
months, says the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat, it will be because the America n
sense Of humor is temporarily short.
There are already three Shorts in the
United States. There are q Short
Beach and Shortburgh, four Short
Creeks, one Shorter, and q Shorterville.
Then we have Short Falls, Short Hills,
Shortly, Short Mountain and Short OFF.
North Carolina contributes the last
mentioned. But variety in short COM
bination is not exhausted. Claims
have been allowed on Short Creek, two
Shortsvilles, Short Tract and Short
vile.
Mr.. Bissel says one-syllable names
will be preferred hereafter. The post
Office department has accumulated
quite collection of monosyllabic Of
fees It has two Arks, eighteen Baths,
FIVE plain Bays, with numerous combi-
nations like Bay City, Bay Centre, and
the like; seven Bells, two Balls, and
two Ball Plays Indiana has town
named B; it is in Tippecanoo county.
Tennessee has named post Office A B
tions have been made with Big, rang
ing from Big Bar to Big Woods, with
such originality shown as Big Bug, in
Arizona,and Big Patch, in Wisconsin.
Eleven Bissells leave no room for fur
ther honors to the postmaster-general
Ten Bellefontaines are spelled in al
most as many different ways. The
Tennesseeans seem to be fertile in the
selection of unique names. They have
got 2 post Office, Yum Yum, an
Ipe, only one jackson, strange to tell;
a Let, an Al, an Andy, Ben, Bob, a
Boy, q Bud, Cute, an Ego, Gabe, a
Gath, q Ho, Ken, Loo, Nancy, q
Notime, Number One, a Seq, Sill,
Tang, Tut, two Wings, a Zach.
Missouri runs somewhat to syno-
nyms. She has q Peculiar and the
next thing to it, an Odd. She has
Freedom and Libertyville. Missouri
has her share of homely names for post
Offices, such as Pulltight, Dutchtown,
Dudenville, Jimtown, Drynob, Eben-
czer. Combinations with Lone seem to
be popular In that state. There are
Lone Elm, Lone Jack, Lone Dell, Lone
Oak, Lone Spring, Lone Star and Lone
Tree. The present congressional dele |
CATION has been well remembered. |
Missouri has post offices called Cockrell
and Vest, also Dockery, Burnes, Joy, |
Bobb, Ryan, Hatch, Hall, Tarsney,
Bland. Missouri has Grover in one |
and Cleveland in another.
She has Gresham, also an Ingalls,. |
Who but q printer could have chosen
for Missouri post offices such names as
jeff and Stet? Consider the phase of
human nature which prompted the Sc
lection of Braggadocio as post Office
address. Prohibition is neighbor to
Rolling Home. Paradise is not far
from Tribulation. Missouri has Nish-
nabotna, a Cockrum, a Nirvana, a
Nixa, q Lupus, an Arnica, Job, q
Phlegeton, Black Jack and Bloom
ing Rose. " e
Adam is in Georgia, Eve is in Ken
lucky, Cain in Kansas, Abel in Ala
banla. A letter addressed to Canaan
may go to sixteen states before it finds
It's destination. The long roll Of post
ofices contains a greater variety of
saints than the calendar. Virginia has
! st. Tammany's, st. Ann, st. Anne,
st. Anna, st. Annie. st. AIMS are all
,ost Offices One st 10, FIVE St. Joes
md eighteen St. Josephs attest the
of that saint and the irrev-
,rence of his latter day admirers. In
Alabama there is Saints Store and in
there is q Saints Rest.
Texas and Iowa have New Yorks. Gin
.innati is found in six states. There
ire four Chicagos and seven Philadel-
,hias. st. Louis is found in Michigan
md Montana, as well as in Missouri.
,enter is the name of post Office in
states. The Centertowns,
and other combinations
With Center number one hundred and
hirty-seven.
In Delaware county, Ohio, post
flee is named Africa. Virginia has
Negro Arm and Negro Foot. North
'arolina has Negro Head, and Arlkan-
as has Negro @Iil. The Acre is in
Vest VirgiAis. The Bay Il In Louisi-
ma. Other post offices with the
rticles are: The Bend, The Corner,
he BALES, The Falls, The Forks The
|e9sef,s TIE Glen, The Grove, The
|papa The Hollow, The Plains, The
.f0ee, Yhes Rock, The Springs, The
quare, The Weirs.
There is no post Office named Yuba
lam, although many people think
here iA Tex4s hasa Yuno, and Cali
ornia has q Yuba City. Michigan and
sorth Dakota have Devils Lake.
here ere three Tsriffs one in Ohio,