Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1904 — Two Odd Place Names. [ARTICLE]

Two Odd Place Names.

A correspondent of the Louisville Courier-journal gives an Interesting explanation of the origin of two queer names of places. The mountains of Kentucky afford many queer names of streams, peaks, towns and villages, but perhaps none are more remarkable than Kingdom Come and Why Not The first of these is the name of a stream in Leslie county and is taken from the Lord’s Prayer. The second Is the name of a small postofflce In the county and originates from the old song “Why Not Tonight?” It is said that an Interesting religious revival was once held in this locality, at which this song was sung a great deal, and the people became so carried away with the musk that the place was ever afterward called Why Not.