Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty First Year - Number 47
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 25, 1931
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'NAMES Is NAMES' APPLIES
To MANY MARLIN STREETS
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Similarity Noted in Some While
Oddity Appears in Designa-
tions of Others.
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"Names is names" in reference to many Marlin streets, affording in-teresting
study for the observer.
Live Oak, Oakes and Oak are designations
borne by three thoroughfares, while even more similarity is found in Williams,
originally William, Bill, Wiley and Willis streets.
For oddity, consider "Lost" street running
by the negro cemetery, while numerous other instances of this nature may be
found.
Many of the streets hve been named for
Marlin residents, perpetuating their memory, while sundry others bear names of
places--for instance, consider Beaumont street, which recalls that the addition
it traverses was opened about the time of the Spindletop oil boom.
Several streets running the length of the
city bear different names on opposite stretches--Live Oak and Bridge, Coleman
and Fortune, Ward and Falls, Williams and Craik being continuations of each
other.
Driving from the ice-electric plant to the
Cedar Springs road on an almost direct course with three slight offsets, one
traverses Monroe, Winter, National--east boundary of the block in which The
Democrat office is located -- Island and Bennett streets.
Marlin has a couple of streets known as
Lang, and the street often referred to as Postoffice in reality is Common street
on the original records and maps.
"Rat Row," which the city is now planning
to improve as a wet extension of Branch street, Brickbat alley, which is now
more appropriately referred to as Concrete, since its improvement with this
material, and "Tin Cup" alley are some other unusual designations handed down by
tradition.
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