Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — THERE ARE SOME EXCLUSIVE [ARTICLE]

THERE ARE SOME EXCLUSIVE

Names In the List of Postoffices in Jasper County To begin with there are seven other Jasper counties —Georgia, Illinois, lowa, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas each having a county of that name. It is interesting to note that in the various postoffices of Jasper county there are a few names which stand alone in the list off postoffices in the United States. Rensselaer is not alone, there being three postoffices in the United States of that name—Rensselaer, Indiana; Rensselaer, Missouri, and Rensselaer, New York. New York also has a Rensselaerville and a Rensselaer Falls, also a county of the name of Rensselaer. There is but one other Remington, and but one other Parr, and both are in Virginia. Virginia also has the only other Wheatfield In this country, but there are eight Wheatlands other than the one in Indiana, which is in Knox county.

There are two other Fair Oaks than the one in Jasper county. One of these is in New York and the other is in Pennsylvania. There is also a Fairoaks in California and another in Arkansas. There is a Kersey in Colorado and another in Pennsylvania. Demotte stands alone in the list, as does Tefft, Kniman arid McCoysburg. But there is a McCoy in Colorado, Kentucky, Oregon and Virginia, and a McCoysviTle in Pennsylvania. There are three other Newlands —one in North Carolina, one in Tennessee and one in Virginia. There are seven other Moodys--one each in Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Oregon and Texas. Alabama, Pennsylvania and Virginia each have a Pleasant Ridge, while both Arkansas and South Dakota have a Pleasantridge. There are two other Surreys—■ one each in California and North Dakota, and there are four that spell it Surry—one each in Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Virginia. There is a Gifford in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, lowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Washington.