Show t V 0 ills A 0 NEB af mules alter antu QU ryland ree 1 5 4 A it by ELMO SCOTT WATSON drawing by ray walters waltera the motorist whom the artist has pictured above may feel a bit like christopher columbus you probably will look in vain for lindy neb on your map for like its famous namesake it soared into fame overnight and that was waa so BO recently that thai its ita doubtful if the map makers have yet got ground around to putting a little dot on the space occupied by the Cornlius ker state and lettering tn tit the word lin dy but if you will start out from the town of bloomfield neb and travel 14 miles northwest discover 11 s a busy little place of more than inhabitants with dozens of bungalows along its streets Bt reeta a methodist church used by two iwo other denominations two general stores two cream cron m and produce stations an implement store a blacksmith shop a restaurant rant a confectioners confection ers store a filling station a barber shop and beauty parlor a paint shop a pool hall a variety store and a telephone exchange that Is it had bad all thesel these when this article was written but it if its motto rop tto like that of many other towns Is watch lindy growl all this data may lle be sadly out of date by the time you read it ir F for or lindy was founded BS as a town early last year when four farmers bought the townsite te on howe creek sold 40 lots at auction and a miniature boom resulted for some time the people of that vicinity had needed a trading center four years ago an attempt was made to found a town there but crop failures an and d nothing was accomplished then the four our farmers got busy and the result the latest great american hero has the latest addition to braskas nebraskan Ne municipalities named after him and the Ile eternal flit fitness ness of things demands that another town should spring up near by and that eventually there be twin cities of landy lindy and ann I 1 but just because you wont find lindy neb on your map dont think that the other towns named orl on the bill board in the picture above are fictitious por for there IS a muleshoe Mulo Mule shoe texas and there will continue to be one if a famous texas editor wins his fight lie ile Is gene howe of the AmarIlIo 7 texas globe son of the famous ed howe of the atchison Atch lson kan globo globe some of the old residents of muleshoe Mule shoe have started a movement to change the towns name to kos borough because it sounds prettier but editor howe believes tn in preserving local color and since muleshoe Mule shoe Is named for the Mule muleshoe shoe ranch famous tn in the days when cattle was king in texas he has been conducting a 11 strenuous editorial campaign to save its honored and historic name theres only one muleshoe Mules Mule boe shoe in tho the world say any those who believe as he ha does and theres already a roseborough N a not to mention tiny any number of rosebuds rose nose bushes rose hose centers sosa rose creeks Eose Rose dalos dales Rose glens rose Ros elands Ros emonts and nose viller much of the local color of the a d nation would be lost says an editorial in a recent issue of thi the kansas city star c commenting 0 mm entIng upon the howe inowe crusade it if there should be a concerted effort to change chang a such names as jamboree ky jelly calif rocky hocky comfort mo nowata inomata okla no wood wyo beehive mont borse haven wash papoose okla and rough hough and ready calif so you see tile the artist who drew the picture above knew what he was about and there really Is a hough and ready calif and a jamboree ky kyl I 1 theres a T n B maryland too and thereby hangs a tale T B Is a small village in the southern part of prince georges county in maryland but just because T B Is the slang elane abbreviation for tuberculosis cu losis dont think that ther theres a s a saRit sanitarium arlum there tile letters composing the name are the initials 0 of f thomas brooke who acquired several thousand acres of land in that neighborhood in colonial days there Is a tradition that when a village gre grew w u up P one of the original brooke boundary stones was found within tile the limits of the village this stone bore the initials of thomas brooke and from the circumstance the inhabitants fell into the habit of calling their village T B punkin center was the name of a fictitious town wherein lived a flett thoua character named uncle josh weatherby made famous on the phonograph by cal stewart a few years back but there really is a punkin and it isn t pumpkin either center its ten miles east of hutch inson kan kaar on U S highway no GOS COS GO CO S and it got in the news a few months ago when some escaped prisoners boners s from the state reformatory were captured there and theres a nicks hicks villa on long lone island in new york fork too kansas not only has a real punkin center but it also bas the smallest town tn in the world with the biggest bagges name jumbo kan Is in gray county about midway between cimarron Cl marron and and its population Is 61 51 but another state has that record beat for three families own all of america america ind the of america in liberty township wabash county once was a boom town being on the direct route from towns south to wabash ind through which grain en route to the wabash and E erie ale canal at lagro was handled in 1850 a plank road was built from marlon marion to lagro and the town own of america halfway between the two places saw an unusual growth in the cincinnati wabash michigan railroad bow now the big pour four was built but missed america and passed through the town of lafontaine now the lots loia in the ones once thriving town are used tor for farm purposed pur posea and only a tumble down awn building remains the tha total assessed valuation Is 1075 recently the houston texas post dispatch ta in commenting upon the I 1 tact fact that a highly entertaining book could be written on the names of texas towns said for instance bug scuttle scuffle a little comm community u anity up near the red hed river probably was not inspired by any physical conflict of insects the nam of this community has hag been chan change gedl iii to bath but the folks still ca call I 1 it bus be scuttle u effle and bug tor fon short possum W walk R lk in walker county may have co come me by its name honestly as an olai likewise I 1 I 1 Hogs t town tn in the ranger hanger oil field whose name was changed irom from the ridiculous to the sublime Desde desdemona moua but to little avail other places are named tor for structures as bee house and board house A money 1 oney the root of all evil to Is the tha b basis ast e of a veral several community names bonzales gon Oon zales I 1 so has ha its cheapside Chea palde but on the tha other hand hunt county has cash live oak county has dinero and lee lea county coun tyla is saving up with a dime box energy Is a snappy town in central tex texas a a fort spunky la Is a brave one gay hill and happy are carefree theres a hint of romance in love lady one of sternness in necessity and one of patriotism in old glory glary A town own in travis county to Is named mud but hopes are bright in star eastland county knows its okra and prohibition worry liberty county as long lone as it has its rye Is a contraction of smith asphalt manufacturing company or something of that sort smithville Is not the h home me of the smith brothers but bug sugar a r land I 1 Is e the home homa of sugar sabine county benj enjoys a good time Verl hest best claims claim s to surpass all other towns austin county extends Is a welcome to the world and zephyr to Is a breezy little place la in brown county but the western states arent the he only ones which have queer names for their towns A short time ago the new york times printed an article about the odd names of towns ial new jersey whereupon a loyal wrote W r 0 t 8 as aa follows afa may I 1 take the tha liberty to say thal tha our towns have no more peculiar names than some of those in new york for instance tn in northeastern now new york tork Is a little village called alpan eastern new york has miss bliss while western new york has joy and F friendship ship the old proverb more afore haste lose less speed seems to have been reversed for new york has ushers speeds ville rushville and Gallup gallupville ville every new yorker must speak the truth because I 1 see Sa fayville sayville and up in wayne county there la Is a place called lock lack berlin where they present visitors with the he key to the tha city and then change change the lock an automobile trip from new york to buffalo Duffa loby by numerous back roads would take one to many strange places attar after crossing golden bridge in westchester chester county one would pass through Or oregon eiron storm ville salt point silver nails blue stores athens athena halimoon Halt moon damascus Kil lowag dundee italy naples pit tard fard wyoming and walva wales one might return via 11 holland olland lava java cuba and cairo it must be ba admitted that new yorkers are alre patriotic there la is union freedom victory ti lagle columbia lu nible and liberty such odd names as Steam burig painted post fly creek burnt hills Model town owls head Korse heads and hunters land grace some of the tha quaint little villages throughout tire bbate it was william shakespeare who once sale said in a namer name I 1 |