Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-10-15
ATLANTA GIVES ROYAL
WELCOME 70 DIXIE
d RWAY MoT0RCADE


Atlanta, Ca, October 16.--A ira.
ditional Atlanta welcome. was ac-
corded the Dixie Highway nzetorcade
Of several automobile loads of pas
sengers from various mid-Western
and Northern states when it arrived
at the Atlanta Woman's Club on
Wednesday night after "trip from
Chattanooga. ~
When the motorists, many of them
having come all the way from Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, found a large dele
CATION Of the Woman's Club on hand
who served them with hot coffee and
sandwiches. More than 100 promi-
nent visitors to the South were. in
cluded in the motorcade which, after
a rest in Atlanta, will proceed south
going as far as Miami, where the trip
will be officially. ended.
The visitors, all good roads boost
ers and pioneers in the movement
which led 10 years ago to the crea-
ton of the Dixie Highway association
were guests upon arrival of the At
lanta Woman's Club, where Mrs.
Norman Sharp, president, headed a
large welcoming committee.
The motorcade left. Soult Ste.
Marie several days ago, proceeding
at moderate speed over the route of
the Dixie Highway through Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Tuesda yand Tuesday night the
motorcade was in Chattanooga,
where the annual election of officers
was held. Judge M. M. Allison, of
Chattanooga was reelected presi-
dent for the tenth year of existence
of the Dixie Highway association. I
The only change in the directorate
of the association for Georgia was
election of Barry Wright, of Rome,
to succeed his uncle, the late Judge
Moses Wright.
Because of the lateness of the ar
rival of the guests, the motor trip
planned Wednesday to Stone Noun
tain for an inspection of the great
Confederate Memorial has been de-
ferred until Thursday.
The motorcade divided into two
sections at Chattanooga, one section
heading toward Atlanta by way Of
Rome, the other by way of Dalton.
When the motorcade passed thru
Chattanooga kind and tender mes
sage from 'Uncle Joe" Cannon TO
the people Of the South was given by
w. G. Eden, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dix
lie Highway promerter. Edens, during
the trip South, had stopped at Dan
vile, ILL.,, and made call on the for
mer Speaker of the House. It was be-
fore banquet to the motorcade that
Edens said:
81 had heard that Uncle Joe re-
Gently had Joined the Methodist
church and had become deeply in
terested in religious subjects. I Wis
tied him when / reached Danville and
found him in his study reading the
Bible. He said he was more inter-
ested now in his church work than
he ever had been in politics and when
I left he said: Brother Edens, was
born in North Carolina and love the
people of the South and want you tc
take to them a message for me. Tell
them wherever and whenever you get
an opportunity that my old age and
infirmities keep me from joining
your motorcade party and taking
the entire trip with you, going thru
North Carolina, and that I send myl
love and blessinbs. Please say to my
people and all the others that am
deeply interested in the Development
Of their highways and all their in
resources and advantages |
and their enterprises, and that their
prosperity brings me great joy in my
years"