The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-17
VISITING SCRIBES .
WILL SEE MUCH
OF POLK COUNTY
Committee On Itinerary
Made a Preliminary
Trip of Inspection of
Proposed Route Dur
ing Wednesday.

TOPOS6Q NOuCe Our-
ing Wednesday.
A preliminary survey of the pro-
posed itinerary through Polk of the
members of the National Editorial AS
sociation on the occasion of the an
nual tour of that organization which
this year is coming to Florida. indi-
Gates that the visitors are going to
enjoy, through the hospitality of the
people of Polk, wonderful treat. A
program of entertainment covering
approximately one hundred and fifty
miles of territory may well be termed
an ambitious one for county to un-
dertake but assurances are not lack
ing that this can be accomplished to
the everlasting credit of Polk county
and of Florida. AS for the visitors,
there is this certainty that they will
be able to see and enjoy resources and
development and natural scenic
splendor the like of which can not be
equaled anywhere.
1t will be recalled that the nations
editors will reach Lakeland about :,
O'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday
March Is. Hospitality and entertain
ment are now being planned by the
Lakeland Chamber of Commerce but
the details are not yet complete
However opportunity will be afforded
the visitors to see something of tho
city and immediate surroundings af-
ter which supper will be served in
the open if the weather is favorable
and indoors should there be inclem-
ent weather. Late thar evening the
special trains will proceed on to
Rradentown and other points in Man
atee county. All of Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday will be spent in
a tour of the Land of Manatee, St.
Petersburg and Pinellas county and
Tampa and Hillsborough county. Day
light Saturday morning. March 19,
will find special trains parked on the
siding at Highland Oaks Farm at
Pierce in Polk county, where an hour
or so will be spent after breakfast in
inspecting this splendid stock farm
and adjacent phosphate mines. Then
will begin the automobile tour Of
Polk, the route leading to Barlow.
1t was from Barlow that the COM
mittee on itinerary started prelimin-
cry tour on Wednesday morning un-
der direction of Erie L. Writ, cashier
of the Polk County State Bank. who
was accompanied in his big Cadillac
by Chairman A. j. Holworthy of the
Polk county committee and Harry
Brown. treasurer of the State Press
committee. A few days later another
trip will be made by two other men,
bers of the committee who were moi
able to go Wednesday, Messrs. c. H.
Walker and j. Walker Pope.
The Wednesday trip was for the
purpose of getting at the approximate
mileage and for figuring out some
sort of tentative time schedule. 1t
took rs minutes to make an inspection
of Barrow and the adjacent cabbage
and truck fields, the leaving time for
Fort Meade being 1910 and the mile
age to that town including the circuit
of Barlow, twenty-one miles. The
run eastward to Frostprooof took
fifty minutes. the mileage to thai
point being forty-one miles. 1t was
noon when the new Crooked Lake
Golf Clubhouse was reached, the
speedometer registering AZ miles. The
luncheon stop was at beautiful High
land Park, fifty-seven miles with Lake
Wales only four miles farther on.
Conferences were held at Frost PROOF
with Frank Cody Of the county com
mittee and at Lake Wales with J. E.
Worthington of he state committee
and G. V. Tillman of the county COM
mittee. Famous Mountain Lake was
the next stop where the visitors will
have more wonderful scenery. Tha
route then proceeds northward
through Dundee and Lake Hamilton
to Haines City eighty-five miles, then
to Lake Alfred. Florence Villa and
Winter Haven. The noon meals will
probably be divided between Lake
Wales and the adjacent resorts and
the evening meal will be in all prob
ability served in the memmoth pack
ing house of the Florida Citrus Ex-
change at Lucerne Park, the mileage
to that point from Barlow being 105.
The only doubling back on the entire
route will be from Lucerne Park to
florence Villa, No decision has yet
been reached as to how to get the mo-
torcade to Lakeland that night
whether BY way of Lake Alfred and
Auburndale or by way Of Winter Ha-
ven. Eagle, Lake and Barlow. This
decision will have to be made later
But this much was quite evident froE.
the preliminary survey that It is going
to be tremendous undertaking toI
show these distinguished visitofs
wonderful Polk county and that 1t
will require the cordial corporation
of all citizens OF the county to put it
over in good shape. Another trip will
be made shortly to fix the time sche-