ST. JOHN, Kan. (AP) — A small Kansas town finally has the spelling it desires.

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names this month officially changed the spelling of the small Stafford County town of St. John back to its original spelling.

The Wichita Eagle reports the town was spelled St. John for nearly a century. But in the 1970s, the U.S. Postal Service inadvertently began spelling out Saint John while transitioning to computers that had no punctuation.

Last year, St. John High School alumni began a petition drive to get the Postal Service to change the town’s listing to the abbreviated version. The Postal Service made the change quickly but the U.S. Board on Geographic Names declined to make the change until it met in early July.