Cryptic stickers on street signs are baffling St. Paul officials.

Byline: Richard Chin

ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Lincoln was honest. And there's a professional wrestler named Sgt. Slaughter. But what does 67,000 have to do with Ann Arbor? Or Cretin and Goitre? And Dayton To Court?

Puzzled? Us too, at least when we were driving down Cretin Avenue in St. Paul last week. Someone had put enigmatic white stickers with black-lettered words printed on them on at least 10 of the street-name signs. Some had a somewhat obvious reference to the street name. On the Lincoln Avenue sign at Cretin, the sticker said Honest. The Sargent Avenue sign sported a Slaughter sticker. Carroll Avenue said X-mas. Roblyn Avenue had Batman added to it. And …