The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-03-22
DIXIE HIGHWAY
PARTY DUE HERE
THIS AFTERNOON
BRUNSWICK PLANS TO EN-
TERTAIN THE VISITORS IN
A ROYAL FASHION.
HUNDREDS TO MEET PARTY
AT COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Visitors Are Expected to Reach
the City at S o'clock and Pro-
gram Will Keep Them Busy
Remainder of Evening.
Visitors Are Expected to Reach

The Dixie highway commissioners
will arrive here today. For weeks
Brunswick has impatiently awaited
this visit, All matters pertaining to
their entertainment will be closed to-
day at noon in the Board of Trade
rooms when the joint entertainment
and arrangement committees hold their
final meeting.
Every automobile owner who has
agreed to meet and help escort the
party from the community school into
the city will be requested to bring
their cars to the Oglethorpe this aft
ernoon at O'Clock, where hurried
assembling will be made in order to
arrive at the community school in due
time.
j. Hunter Hopkins, mayor of Bruins
wick; Eustace G.. Butts, president of
the Board Of Trade; A. d. Gale, Il. Pa
drosa and Leighton Burroughs are in
Jacksonville this morning and will re-
turn here today with the commission
ers. Frank ID. Aiken, l.. II. Tlaym and
plhNio Will tACti lut highway par "
at either Woodbine or Kingsland today
and return with them to the city.
Prac ctiCally every automobile in Bruns-
wick will be assembled this afternoon
at the community school, from whence
they will escort the party into the
city.
The autoists have heard and re-
sponded to the call for bright and
breezy decorations for their cars. The
whole procession from the community
school to the city will be beautified
with appropriate pennants, flowers
and school children as thick as they
can pack into the cars The long train
of welcomers of the commissioners
will be headed by the Boy Scouts in
the large auto truck of the Glynn. Ice
company, carrying their drum and bu-
gle corps. A banner with the words,
Welcome; good roads, beautiful seen
cry, historic places" will be stretched
across the road.
J. b. Abrams, chairman of the enter
tainment committee, assisted by the
/ iliCIllDClb, ~ -. A5iluIiD, AGtOi &c II.
Cook and A. de Sola Mcndes, have
spared no expense of energy and mon
ey and work to make this a magnifi-
cent pageant that will be remembered
by the commissioners as resound-
ing welcome. They have also care.
fully made the program up in such a
manner that ii will politely bring into
prominence the things Brunswick
wants the world TO know about this
prosperous city. Il. de SOla Mendes
is due credit for his ingenuity in ar
ranging souvenir menus for the dinner
! in the shape Of elegant Brunswick
booklets issued by the Board Of Trade,
containing many beautiful views Of
Brunswick, st. Simon and Jekyl, with
road scenes in Glynn county and an
| the seacoast route.
/ The Elk's club has arranged to keep
"open house" during the entire stay Of
the commissioners and will start show
ing their hearty spirit by serving re-
freshments upon the arrival Of the
party.
! Dinner Tonight.
| An elaborate dinner will be served at
the Oalethorpe at O'Clock tonight.
Frank d. Aiken will act as toastmaster
and Judge ID. W. Krauss will make
the principal address Mayor Hopkins,
having already informally welcomed
the commission to Brunswick, will
make a formal talk in which he will
turn over to them the keys TO the city.
During the banquet the good roads
question will be dexterously handled
by f. b. Twltty, JT. Colson, E G.
Butts and A. de SOla Mendes. each
making nve-minute addresses on good
roads. the beauties and historic inter
est of the seacOast route for the Dix
ie highway Eloquent'rosDoDses are
expected from the visitors
II is expected that the First Regi-
ment bard and an orchestra will fur.
nish music for the dance that will fol
low the banquet George II. Smith
with his seeyral appointed aides, viii