The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-06-17
Movement Started by Mer=
h chants Has Aroused
Great Interest.
BIG RUNS ARE PLANNED
For Two Weeks, Beginning July
S Brunswick and Glynn Coun-
ty Will Give Better Roads
Movement Big Boost.

No movement in recent years in
Brunswick and Glynn county has
aroused so much interest as the good
roads agitation now stirring the people
in this city and county. The Mer-
chants association will hold a meet
lug this afternoon to consider develop
ments in their good roads campaign,
meeting and to name committees to
arrange all details of it.
Never in the history Of this city has
the question of more AMI better roads
been so prominently before the public
as now and beginning with the mass
meeting Brunswick and Gym county
will have two weeks of good roads
meetings, auto runs and general road
enthusiasm that is bound ID get re-
suits.
On July Brunswick will 10 host to
not less than two hundred visitors
from Savannah, Jacksonville and in
tervening territory who are coming to
Brunswick in the interest of the Dixie
highway movement. The special COM
mittee of the Board of Trade held a
meeting yesterday and decided to
serve a luncheon to the visitors on
this occasion in the Elk's clubroom.
An interesting program and a good
line of refreshments will be provided.
h July the county commissioners
viii head procession of not less than
forty cars on run from Brunswick
to Jesup by way of Offerman, and
Alma returning by Everett City and
Mount Pleasant. While in Jesup our
commissioners and citizens will hold
a meeting with the commissioners of
Wayne county for the purpose of ar
irving at a route for highway to
connect the metropolis of Wayne
county with Brunswick and the sea.
A strong movement is on foot to
extend this Jesup-Brunswick highway
through the country into Macon and
the advocates of this plan point out
that beyond Lumber City the roads
into Macon are in good shape leaving
the most of the important work to be
done between Lumber City and Bruins
wick.
The members of the Merchants as
sociation are enthusiastic in the sup
port of the movement their organiza-
tion has started and claim that the
day the three great highways they
are contending for are built that
Brunswick will be placed on the map
as the greatest seaside resort of the
South Atlantic, that Brunswick mer-
chants will prosper as never before
and that Brunswick as a whole will
take on new life and Importance.
The following letter has been ad-
dressed to the president of the Jesup
Board of Trade notifying the people
of Jesup of the proposed visit of
Brunswick business men to their city:
"Mr. J. F. Breen,
"Jesup, Ga.
Dear Sir:
"a number of Brunswick citizens,
headed by the commissioners of Glynn
county, are planning to visit Jesup
July s, making the trip from Bruins
wick to Jesup in automobiles
We hope to have the pleasure of
meeting as many Jesup citizens as
possible, and will call on your county
commissioners while in your city We
are looking forward with great pleas
ure to this trip and feel sure that the
result will be encouraging to all of us
who desire to build up cordial rela-
hops with our neighboring cities.
Very truly yours,
III. NJ. KING, JR''
Sescretary Merchants Association.