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Town Code §11.01(B); the claims record for the other places' tales
The town's name has no legend, and that is its distinction. Where other Roselands keep roses — wild roses on a prairie, a colonel's compliment, a founder's partner named Rose — this town's name-change is a courthouse act: "an affidavit was filed in the St. Joseph County Recorder's office changing the name of the town from Roselawn to Roseland," filed the same day as the incorporation petition, 27 December 1915, and voted on in a grocery store. No carrier reached says who chose the new name, or why the old one would not do, or what "Roselawn" itself had meant to whoever planted it on a farm territory. The folklore entry is therefore the honest one: a name that arrived by affidavit, attached to no story, in a town whose whole early record is a set of filings. The travelling roses tales are printed in the stories file under their own places' names, so that the absence here is a finding and not an oversight.