The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-09
POST OFFICE NAMES
Curious Results Of a Reform Of
the Postmaster Generals.
Ingenuity Displayed in Some Sections -
the Selection OF Unique Names
Many Of Them Remark
ably Abbreviated.

| ably Abbreviated.
Postmaster General Bissell want
short names for new post Offices. Som,
! of Mr. Bisselrs predecessors attempted
reforms in the direction of post Office
| nomenclature with rather curious re
suits. When the residents of a new
! town in Missouri sent in their applice
ton for post Office several years age
the name they suggested was not salts
| factory to the department for some
! reason.
Select another name," wrote the
postmaster general; something not sc
common. something peculiar"
"All right" the applicants replied
''call it Peculiar And the mail bag
has gone to Peculiar, Cass county
No." ever since.
If Mr.. Bissell doesn't have run on
Short" post Offices during the coming
months, says the ST. Louis Globe-Demo.
crat, it will be because tho America n
sense Of humor is temporarily short.
There are already three Shorts in the
United States. There are Short
Beach and a Shortburgh, four Short
Greeks, one Shorter, and 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.. Bissen says one-syllab1e 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 Bali. Plays. Indiana has q town
named B; it is in Tippecanoo county.
Tennessee has named post Office A B
c. One hundred and twenty combina-
tons 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.
Their honors to the postmaster-ge 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 Y q post Office, Yum Yum, an
Ipe, only one Jackson. strange to tell;
a Let, an Al, an Andy, Ben, a Bob,
Boy, Bud, q Cute, an Ego, Gabe,
Gath, Ho, Ken, a Loo, a Nancy,
Notime, Number One, Seq, Sill,
Tang. Tut. two Wings, Zach.
Missouri runs somewhat to syno-
nyms She has Peculiar and the
next thing to it, an Odd. She has a
Freedom and a Libertyville. Missouri
has her share of homely names for post
Offices, such as Pulltight, Dutchtown,
Dudenville, Jimtown, Drynob, Eben-
ezer.v 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 Cochren
and Vest, also Dockery, Burnes, Joy,
Bobb, Ryan, Hatch, Hall, Tarsney,
Bland. Missouri has a Grover in one
county and Cleveland in another.
She has a Gresham, also an Ingalls,.
Who but printer conld 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 a post Office
address. Prohibition is neighbor to
Rolling Home. Paradise is not far
from Tribulation. Missouri has Nish-
nabotna, Cockrum, a Nirvana, a
Nixa, Lupus, an Arnica. Job, a
Phlegeton, Black Jack and Bloom
ing Rose.
Adam is in Georgia, Eve IS in Ken
lucky, Cain in Kansas, Abel in Ala
bama. A letter addressed to Canaan
may go to sixteen states before It finds
its destination. The long roll of post
Offices contains a greater variety of
saints than the calendar. Virginia has
a st. Tammany's, ST. Ann, ST. Anne,
st. Anna, ST. Annie st. AIMS are all
post offices. One st. 10, five st. Joes
and eighteen st. Josephs attest the
of that saint and the irrev
erence of his latter day admirers. IN
Alabama there is Saints Store and in
Mississippi there is Saints Rest.
Texas and Iowa have New YorkS Gin
cinnati is found in six states There
are four Chicagos and seven Philaiel-
phias. ST. Louis is found In Michigan
and Montapa, as wen as in Missouri.
Center is the name of post Office in
states. The Centertowns,
and other combinations
with Center number one hundred and
thirty-seven.
In Delaware county, Ohio, post
office is named Africa. Virginia has
Negro Arm and Negro Foot North
has Negro Head, and Arlsan-
sas has Negro Hill. The Acre is in
West Virginia. The Bay IS in Louisi
ANA Other post offices with the
articles are: The Bend, The Corner,
The Dalles, The Falls, The Forks, The
Geyser, The Glen, The Grove, The
Gums, The Hollow, The Plains, The
Ridge. The Rock. Ths Springs, The
Square. The Weirs-
There is no post Office named Yuba
Dam, although many people think
there is. Texas has a Yuno. and Cali
fornia has Yuba City Michigan and
North Dakota have Devils Lake.
There are three TsriffS-me in Ohio,
which is quite fit; one in West Viz
ginia, and third in North Carolina
Cruel.
Weary Watkins-MadamsI was not
always az you see me now
Mrs. Peck-No. / guess not / sup