The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-19
IS!
IS DATE FIXED
FOR MEETING
Dixie Highway lomciaIs and
County Commissioners to i
Meet in This City.
GOVERNMENT is INTERESTED
Ii Proper Showing is Made, it is
Believed This Leg OF Highway
May Be Taken Over by Fed
eral Authorities.

county commissioners and good roads
boosters in Brunswick on Saturday,
Sept. l. President Allison, of the
Dixie Highway association, and Clark
Howell, editor of the Atlanta Consti
tuition, and w. T. Anderson, editor of
the Macon Telegraph, the two com
missioners of the Dixie Highway as
sociation for Georgia, will be preSeN
and report on the work accompli p.
ed by the association, and will pre-
sent plan by which it is hoped to
induce the United States government
to take in considerable portion, at
least, of the Dixie Highway in Geor-
gia as part of a system of military
highways to connect the army camps
and forts of the interior, and espe.
cially the coast defenses along the
entire seaboard from Maine to Mex
ico. A call for the meeting at Bruins
wick will be issued within few days
by the Brunswick Board of Trade.
' Letters received by The News from
both Mr.. Howell and Mr.. Anderson
stress the Importance of this meet
ing to all residents of the coast coun-
ties from Savannah to jacksonville
and ask that the Board of Trade un-
dertake to secure large attendance
They state that President Allison is
now in Washington comforting with
the officials of the war department on
the matter of perSuading the govern
ment to take over portions of the
Dixie Highway for inclusion in the
main military roads that it is pro
posed the United States build as a
part of the permanent plans for de-
tense that are now being worked out
A meeting of the people along the
central route of the Dixie Highway
has been called to be held at Way
cross on August 81. President ALI
son and Messrs. Howell and Ander-
son will attend the Waycross meet
ing, going thence to Jacksonville
and then coming to Brunswick fol
the meeting on the 1st day of Sep
tember. Letters have been written
by the two vice presidents for Geor
gia to Hon. Mills B. Lane, of Savan
nah, urging him to secure as large
an attendance as possible at the
Brunswick meeting from Chatham
and other coast counties.
The county commissioners of the
counties between Savannah and Jack
sonville will all be invited and urg-
ed to attend the Brunswick meeting
Brunswick was selected as the cen
trail point between Savannah and
Jacksonville, and it is believed that
it will be convenient for all the com.
missioners and all others who wish
to see the government induced to
build a permanent military highway
along the Georgia coast, to come to
Brunswick and take part in the meet
ing. 1t is especially desired that in
terest be aroused in Jacksonville in
the improvement of the Dixie High
way, as the attention of the people
of that otherwise progressive city
seems to have been lacking in the
past so far as the Dixie Highway is
concerned. 1t is necessary that eff
forts be enlisted to secure the i'm
provement of that portion of the
highway that runs through Nassau
county, Fla, which is in very bad
condition, never having been improv.
ed from its original condition as a
typical deep-sand road
1t will be recalled that General
Leonard Wood, in letters to Presi
dent Allison, recently published, urg-
ed the necessity of improving the
Dixie Highway between Savannah
and Jacksonville, both above and be-
low Glynn county. General Wood
said regarding this portion of the
highway:
81 am particularly interested in the
effort you are making to build up
what is known as the Dixie High
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