Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
Citizens Had Named Their Place
for Him in Hope of Cash
Benefits.
NOW THEY LIVE IN AREA.
For Many Years Noises In the POST
ONCE Were Investigated for
sound Lille Money Coming
frmo Cleveland or New
fork-Nothing Doing.


chicago, Aug. 1.-THE only town IN
tho United States bearing ,he r,ue
Rockefeller" has been changed to tho
commonplace name Area" Tho v,,
lage is 40 miles north Of Chicago on
the Wisconsin Central railway. FIJI
! teen years ago an enthusiastic popu-
lation Of 900 baptized II In honor of
the oil king. Baptize is the word for
there Is water. water everywhere and
nothing else to drink
All these years the town Law falIoyy
Mr.. Knigge, the gentlcmanlv grave
digger, followed his calling with clock
| like regularity. between funerals he
conducted Uncle Sans postorice 20
tn" satisfa ction Of all the people. Tho
stork made good race. however. SO
that the population is now normal
| When "Roclsefellcr" was named the
oil king was putting millions Of dol
lars into Chicago University A schoo,
had been established by devoted
teacher In Rockefeller. and for many
years the noises In the postoTice were
investigated for sound like money
coming from the direction OF Clcve-
land or New York There was moth
ing doing
Now comes promoter who has
gathered up part of the surface water
about the town. converted II into n
big lake and IL building a CONNER
cial college with n motto The motto
Is ability. Reliahrhv. Endurance
Action" Taking tho initial letters of
these words he had tive word "Area"
and had influence enough to have
Rockefeller re,cEated to the discard
and Area substituted
THOUGHT IT WOULD PLEASE HIM
| He had a hard fight. for many ~
the residents remained true 90 Rookie
feller"
you see it is this way" said John
Evans. who was present when the
town was first named. I'VE under
stard that Mr. Rockefeller owned a
J good part Of the Wisconsin Central
railroad way back in the nineties. |
believe the first suggestion came from
the railroad people, who said it would
tickle Mr. Rockefeller TO have the
TO believe that he might 40 something
, handsome for the town. Before that
tho place was called Holcomb. after
Mr. uolcomb. who owned all the land
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