The famous sentence: no slogan — but two sentences the record keeps

No motto, slogan, or speech line is carried for this town by any carrier reached — the sentence class's whole stock is two documented sentences, neither of them a slogan. The town's own carriers print no motto: not the town site, not the 2011 plan, not the school corporation's. What the record does keep, each at its class: first, the naming sentence itself — Howard's "It receives its name from a number of small lakes south of the town, the chief of which is Riddle's lake" — the most-repeated sentence ever written about this town, famous by use rather than by coinage, and carried in the folklore file. Second, a judge's sentence: the Indiana Tax Court's framing of Union Township v. DLGF (12 November 2015) around "the $40 million question: whether or not an 'error' existed" — a courtroom line about this township, quoted in the controversies file, famous at case strength only. A third candidate prints at its exact strength and no higher: the Congressional Record's 2008 styling of the town's congressman as "just a dairy farmer from Lakeville" — a famous sentence about a Lakeville man, carried in the civic file, not a town saying. No speech text, campaign line, or festival slogan for Lakeville was found in the town or Tribune press carriers reached; the row's residue stands named: the town and Tribune press file, searched, is the settler for any slogan tradition beyond these.

Principal sources: the banked Folklore lk-folklore-town-name; this history lk-rem-controversies (the Tax Court's sentence, from the opinion); this history lk-civ-servants (the Congressional Record line); the town's site and the 2011 plan as searched for a motto, November 2026.