Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-06-25
CENTRAL DIXIE
HIGHWAY BODY
MET WEDNESDAY
Eleventh Annual Session Well At
tended. Delegations. From
All Along Route.

The eleventh annual meeting OF the
Central Dixie Highway Association
was held at the court house here yes
tardey, presided over by w. R. Bowen
president of the association.
President Bowen introduced Mayor
Jack Hayes, who welcomed the dele
gates in an interesting way. to which
Judge F. w. Dart. of Douglas, re-
sponded for the visitors.
Delegations from Folkston, Way
cross, Douglas, Ocilla. Abbeville and
Hawkinsville were in attendance and
renewed their pledges through their
county commissioners for the compile
ton of the paving of the entire route
through the several counties traversed.
Coffee and Ben Hill counties re-
ported new paving projects to be I'M
dertaken this year and carried to COM
p1etion as rapidly as money and labor
can do it. The paving of the route from
Waycross was reported under way by
7. C. Littleheld of the Charlton coun-
ty commission,
Enthusiastic speeches on highway
matters were made by Judge Dart, OF
Douglas, Prof J. H. Thrash of the
18th district agricultural school. Sec
retarp Gelders Mayor Jack Mayes OF
Fitzgerald and others. A luncheon was
rendered the delegation at the Lee
Grant Hotel by the Fitzgerald Cham
! Der of Commerce, when Col. Hal Law
son of Abbeville and Rev Carl Minor
| of Douglas, and S. G.. Pryor, Jr., o
Fitzgerald made brief addresses.
| VIM. R. Bowen was reelected presi
dent and I. Gelders secretary. John r
Slater of Douglas was elected vict
president. Dr. w. A. Fleming Of Folks
ton, ]. D. Mitchell, of Waycross; ]
H Thrash, of Douglas. ]. M. Willis Of
: Ocil1a, J. f. Turner, of Fitzgerald, O.
F. Beckham, of Abbevi1le; ]. ]. Har-
ward, Hawkinsville and J. A. Davis, OF
Perry were elected county chairmen
for their respective counties and will
be the executive committee for the
current year. Advertising the Central
Dixie Highway as tourist route and
the several counties along the route
for prospective settlers was made a
definite program for the current year.
The counties represented and delega-
tons consisted of:
Charlton county: ]. c. LittTefeld, ].
c. Beginner, C. w. Waughte1l, T. w.
Wrench, ]. B. Carpenter, !. L,.Phillips,
Ware county: J w. Bum and N L
ellis.
Coffee county Judge w Dart, T
A Dixon. H. J Day, Lewis Vickers.
Rev. Carl Minor, M F Head, R K
Sapp and Prof ] M Thrash.
Irwin county: I. c. Smith.
Ben Hill county: G A Jolley, J B
Norman. c T Owens, w N Smith, ]
H Mayes. B T Strickland, w c VIII
kerson, w r Bowen. Gelders. J H
Palmer, F M Moore, w III Lasseter.
S G. Pryor. IT., G M Grady, J L Per-
ry. 7 Turner, ". Fl Roberts. ] R Hor-
ton. o L Bradshaw. NJ Dickson.
Wilcox county. L c Goodin, M B
Wilcox. Rev. C L Foote, w Fl Wi1ker
son. S F Reed, Nv R Googe. Col. Hal
Lawson. G NJ Bazemore. w L Har-
re1l and O F Beckham.
Pulaski county,: County Commits
sioner 7 7 Whitfield
The following telegram was voted
to be sent the Governor, Senate and
House of Representatives in session in
Atlanta:
The Central Dixie Highway AS
ISOLATION assembled here to-day de-
liberating upon that vital subject good
roads. presents its cordial greetings
upon your opening day and asserts
the belief that now. while tremendous
tourist travel is passing through
Georgia affording a powerful means
of exposing the unmatched oppor-
tunities afforded in Georgia for agri-
cultural. industrial and intellectual
and promising a great
increase in population as a result OF
that now the supreme
thing of importance to be done in
Georgia is for you to further the pro-
motion as rapidly as possible the de-
velopment of superior roads in the
state. We endorse the movement just
instituted by Greater Georgia 1ncor-
porated and the Georgia Association
to broadcast to less favored states
of our Union the matchless advan-
tages Georgia affords Make it pos
sible for them to broadcast the fact of
a great public road system.
w r Bowen. President