The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-05-18
Party of Fifteen or More Bruns-
wick Citizens Will Attend
Good Roads Conference
JUDGE JOHN P. ROSS, OF
MACON, TO MAKE ADDRESS
Rep. B. r. Mann, President of
of the Macon-BrunsWick
Highway Association, Says
the Meeting Will be One of
the Most important Gather
ings of the Kind to be Held in
South Georgia This Year.

A delegation of fifteen, or more,
Brunswick citizens, all of whom are
sincerely interested in the building of
good roads, will leave at nine O'Clock
tonight over the Southern railway, for
Lumber City, where they will attend
tomorrow the annual meeting of the
MaconeBrunswkck Highway Absocia-
tion. which is expected to be one of
the most important good roads con
ferences to be held in South Georgia
during the year.
Acommittee composed of Messrs.
G. Miller, w. H, Wood and Joe Rentz
has been busily at work in getting the
Brunswick delegation lined up, and
hotel reservations have already been
made at Lumber City for the local par
ty, who will return TO the city Thurs
day evening at 1920 o'clock.
In discussing the meeting last night
Representative B. F. Mann, of Glynn
county, who is the president of the
association, stated that the gathering
will be, without doubt, one of the
most important meetings of the kind
O be held in the state during the year
and that it is expected that very ma
ierial progress will be made tow ards
carrying the project to completion
The special order of business will
be the discussion of plans-s for the
building of the highway bridge across
the Ocmulgee river, at Lumber City
one of the most costly pieces of work
in the entire highway project, and
which is vital link in the chain. The
plans for this work have already been
made. and engineers of the state high
way department will be on hand tt
present the figures, and other infor
nation regarding the construction.
:. MANY Delegates to Attend.
Large delegations of prominent cit
izens from all counties along the route
of the road between Brunswick and
Macon will be present at the meeting
and reports will be made of the pro
gress already accomplished, as well as
the plans for future work. The Glynn
county delegation will be able to re
port that the road through this county
has already been practically complet
ed, with a paved highway for the
greater part of the distance, and a
modern sand-clay road for the few re
naming miles already under construc
tion.
Judge Ross Principal Speaker.
Judge John P. Ross, of Macon, will
be THE principal speaker for the occa-
sion, and H. S. Stroller, also we'll
known Macon lawyer, will be another
speaker of the program. c.: M.
Strachan, chairmanof the state high
way department., and Chief Engineer
w. R. Neel, will also make short talks,
as we'll as number of others from the
various county delegations.
The Brunswick party will be com,
posed of Messrs. B. F. Mann, Geo. H.
Smith, J. L.. Andrews, State Senator
L. R. Akin, c. Miller, chairman of the
board of county commissioners, Fred
g. Warde, secretary of the Board of
Trade, Paul E.. Twitty, of the Bruins
wick Bank & Trust Co, A J. Mitchell
son, Louis Silverstein, w. H. Wood,
j. Hunter Hopkins, former mayor, O.
S. Perdue, N. H. Ballard. c. V..Abbott,
Dr.. w. M. Odum, and, perhaps, "a num-
ber of others. .s,ss.4;