Show ho ow VV got un cobol lecul N a a im 10 a ir mw peculiar mo unconsciously christened by peeved post office department official washington thero there ts to a very pecullar peculiar story connected with tho the naming of peculiar moi Mo which la Is also it a peculiar namo name for a town the federal government does not name towns and hamlets when they are arc born or feel fed the urge for it a cognomen but the post office department does docs regulate them to tho extent of prohibiting duplicating of names within the samo same state so whon a newl newly Y formed community in bilms ourt suggested a certain name for its post office tho the department informed th abo 1 in 1 a habitants habl thero there was already ono on by b that namo name in their state several other names were chosen by tho the residents and submitted but always with the samo same result finally on an exasperated official of the department in refusing tho the latest choice wrote tho the city fathers among other things that it was mighty peculiar they could not find a good name for their town whereupon ho he received tho the following reply acting on your suggestion we select the name peculiar 4 and oo no peculiar Pecullar As Is on tile map of today rule in naming now new towns there is only one rule in the naming of new towns and th ut Is that thero there shall be but one of the same namo name in a state but that does not prohibit other states from boasting towns of the same name for In instance stanco there are 46 45 names used more mare than 20 times each to designate towns anti and cities benjamin franklin Is remembered ns as an inspiration more than any other person and franklin F rank lill as a town katno takes the prize occurring 81 31 times in 81 states r the others in point of popularity run clinton 80 times chester and arlington 20 21 of jac each h washington 28 troy salem balom madison marion manchester and clayton 27 glenwood kingston and newport 20 Af ihland Cent centerville erville and cleveland 25 auburn dover lincoln monroe oxford princeton springfield warren and union 24 greenville and wilson 23 belmont Bc lmont buffalo canton dayton euraka liberty milford and plymouth 22 0 burlington and lebanon 21 portland lexington jamestown hudson and danville 20 dane bane of Post postoffice office clerk clarks duplicated names aro are the bane of tile the postal clerk and the yankee hopu tation for originality rises staggering when confronted by the apparent lack of imagination used need to name american communities there are even two i Ohl cagos six elx seven do da trolio trolas and 14 Den deevers vers in names also causes the postal department considerable trouble indistinct penmanship might e easily arlly contuse confuse aldoro iowa with eldorado iowa in pennsylvania alone there are 18 communities whose choso names begin with tile the prefix green greene greenbriar Oreen brIar greenberr greenburr Orcen Green burr greencastle Green castle green land freenoch Grec Gre enoch greenpark Green park greenborg greenboro Green Oreen boro greensburg greensbury Greens burg greenstone greenstown Greens town greenville and greenwald there la Is a partiality for bloom as aa a prefix in new york state as for example ample bloomburg Blooming bloomingdale dalo blooming grove bloomington and Bloo myllie foreign cities have contributed their names reely freely in this country there are IS 18 towns known as aa parts paris and a like number of 17 berlins despite the war 12 Vl ennas six sir peking and two brussels Brussel mL |