Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1909 — IT IS STILL McCOY AVENUE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IT IS STILL McCOY AVENUE.

In our reference to the Tom McCoy residence elsewhere, it will be noticed that we use the term "McCoy” avenue, as the street on which thia prdpetty 1b located, and that we have sometimes heretofore used that term. Probably 99 per cent of our readers will, think we are in error in designating it McCey avenue, believing that the name was changed a few years ago to Mllroy avenue. This is not correct. It is true that in 19C)6 a petition from the G. A. R. post here was filed with the city council asking that the name be so changed, and after - going over a few meetings the prayer of the petition was granted on August 28, 1906, and the city attorney directed

to prepare the necessary ordinance changing the name of said street from McCoy avenue to Milroy avenue. The fact that the petition had been granted was published in thq local papers, but the entry mentioned in Ihe above paragraph is the last thing found of record in the city clerk’s office, and the ordinance has never been passed, so it is still McCoy avenue. We were not sure about this matter ourselves, and in order to make sure, we went to the clerk Wednesday afternoon and asked him. He replied that it had been changed to Milroy avenue, but on looking the matter up found that there was no record of the ordinance mentioned having ever been presented or passed, consequently the old name of McCoy avenue stands. We presume every member of the council thinks it is now Milroy avenue—at least two members to whom we put the question said it had been changed—but they are in error just the same.

The T. J. McCoy residence as it looked the morning after the dynamiting, and as it appears to-day in almost the same condition.