People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — ITS NAME IS NAMELESS. [ARTICLE]

ITS NAME IS NAMELESS.

How * Gcorgte Town Come to Got It* Queer Title. J. R. Shepard, a prominent citizen of Nameless, Laurens county, Ga„ was in the city recently and while here told how his town got its queer name, says the Macon Telegraph. "After the postofflce authorities at Washington decided to give us a postoffice," said Mr. Shepard, “the question of naming it arose. I had interested myself in getting the office and therefore it was by common consent left me to suggest a name to the authorities. Accordingly I sent on a name that I thought was a beauty, and while awaiting a reply I pictured how some day that same name would be known all over the country and that the town would grow and blossom as a rose, for I believe that there is much in a name. FinaUy the- answer came back that, while the name I had suggested was a good'one, it was too similar to another postoffice in Georgia. “Then I put my brain to work on another name. I just knew they would accept it, but the same answer came back as before. Still another and an-* other name was sent and each time the authorities would write back that there was either another postoffice in the state by that name or that it was so much like some other name that if it was adopted there would be confusion in the mails. At last 1 sat down and wrote out a list of several hundred names and told them that if they could not find one in the list to suit them the office would remain nameless, for I had sugegsted every name I had ever heard of. In due time the answer came back. ‘Let it remain Nameless,’ and ever since then it has had that name, which, while a little odd, is not such a bad name after all.”