days the town clerk is still in doubt. |
The spelling vasn't such a sticker. 1
although there was at least 20 differ- 1
ent spellings, each trying hard to out
do the others in the number of letters
•bat can be crowded into the name
One of the spellings contains 5*
letters, but ia not considered correct.
The conservative 8 letters ia believed
to be right.
The trouble came when the town
clerk attempted to learn what the
name means According to his belief
the meaning is “Boundary fishing
place." He said this was the explana
tion found in an old print.
•Just to make sure, Town clerk Hic
key steped into the assessor s room
where Chairman Frank E. Wilber,
Edward H. Hughes and Carl M.
Lorenz were busy totaling up the
town tax accounts.
'Why, that s easy." said Mr. Hughes
with his pencil poised in the air, "the
name means blue water,' ”
"Well if that name means blue
water, it certainly took those Indians
a long time to say it," said Chairman
Wilber.
“I suppose it would have taken
them a week to say apollinaris water.”
"The name if I remember right,
means best fishing grounds,1" said
Mr Lorenz.
During the day people who were
asked the meaning of the name, all
had something new. No two were
alike and none were vouched for as
authentic, f'p to the time they were
asked, everybody thought ’they knew,
and then found out they didn't.
Town clerk Hickey looked through
various maps and old records, but
nothing he could find gave the mean
ing of the lake. One of the items hit
on by the town clerk to get a line on
the name of the lake ended in failure.
