Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — Queer Names In North Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Queer Names In North Dakota.

The most suggestive and inviting name I saw was that of a druggist in North Dakota. It was U. R. Welcome, his first name being Uriah. Across the street was another man with a funny name. He bore the euphonious cognomen, John Stonepounder. In the next town I found a man who was so fat that the name of Abraham Crumpacker seemed especially fitting. But there was a woman in the town who went him one better. Her name was Emily Freshbread. In the next town, I got so interested in queer names that I soon heard' of & speedy individual called Sarah Deerhoof. In that same town there is a man named Henry Bookstruck. Ever after that I wa6 on the lookout. On the train I met David Newsalt and Millie Newlove. The man with the most war-like name I ran against was Abraham Saltpeter. In one town I found a man who had a very poetic name. It was Seabright Sunbloom. But the last name 1 struck finished me It seemed like a direct command to cease my sacrilegious monkeying with people’s names. I took it as a warning and quit A. Quickfinish, and what do you suppose his partner’s name was? It was W. K. Goforth.—St Paul Dispatch.