The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-23
RE-ROUTING OF
DIXIE HIGHWAY
VOTED DOWN At
ORLANDO MEETING

al the meeting OF the Contra
FLORIDA Highway Association at Or
l@hdo this week. the main interes,
'ehtered around the re-routinp n
the Dixie Highway. OF this move.
il'ht the Orlando Reporter-Stal
says:
an substance the recommendation,
q the committee we're that inasmuch
as oseeola had not fulfilled her
p'eages to complete hard road IA
connect with that OF Polk county
"hG as this road was in such a bad
coLdition. the matter of a new rout-
me for the Central Highway be tax
eh UP al the semi-annual meeting in
June.
The committee suggested that the
read be changed to run from Lees
enre by Groveland and Florence VII
la as the Central Florida Highway
Association was pledged to the Dixie
Highway Association to give hard
surfaced read from Jacksonville TO
! Tampa, and as Osceola had failed i'm
3 It's Pledges. something must be done
SO that the Central Association
might keep its pledges The secre
tary in submitting the resolution q
the report stated that osceola had
voted bonds, but that they had been
arnulled by the courts and it was
understood that there apparently
had been no effort made to save
them
! Nr. c. \ Carson arose aud in
short speech said that he was loath
. I believe that the committee had
uadc the report as submitted by the
secretary for they must have known
that every effort had been made h,
the representative voters of Osce
Inla county u save the bond issue.
4 that they had employed two of the
nest lawyers in the state To fight thr
ease for them bat il unfortunately
had gene against them and not only
did Osceola want the road bu, they
Were going to carry another bond
election and have them
Nr. lworthy ri POLK county
said that Polk county had been
threatened in the same way in which
Csceolo was al the present when the
meeting was held in Oeala. but tina,
il was that more than anything else
which had made Polk county go
ahead with her bend issue until now
she leads the state and he thought
III Justice to Central Highway AS
scciation in their pledges to the
ii"l' ASSo'idtloH ihdt thts NhoHlu
have the privilege of changing the
routes if the counties fell down on
their pledges. and he hoped to see
Csceola get in line Immediately
II was then moved by Mr. Harris
that the report of the executive con
mitice he tabled which was seconded |
Gy II Clay Stanford Of Kissimmce r
" Perry of the executive commit
tee then explained that all Of their
nights work, for they sat mp until /
morning to make ont the report, had
been tabled and they would have
nothing to show as a result OF the
n Getting even in their minutes He
asked Mr.. Harris TO reconsider his
motion and ask that that portion OF
the report which applied TO chang
ing the route be eliminated from the
rcrcrt After this was accomplished
and voted up. n Congressman Sears
mad motion that both the orlHina
r elton and the reconsidcratirn be
struck from the minutes Of the meet
iua T. was then moved that 'he re-
nor. of tho executive committee be
accepted. leaving omen for discussion
lhc elimination Of the report f'r III"
changing Of the route.
Mr.. Stanford in warm speech
said Kisslmmce dia not need The
lelp Of outsiders to get her roads
that she had voted bonds
for the purpose and that they had
taen killed by the owners OF large
tracts If land. which we're being held
: timber and grazing purposes ana
never paid in proportion Their Just
,.ves and that Osceola would not