Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-28
THOUSAND CARS LIKELY
TO DRIVE TO ATLANTA
Programs Being Prepared For
Various Stops on Route;
Local Band Starred

The Dixie Highway Auxiliary, with
national headquarters in Macon, will
join the Dixie Highway Association
in celebrating the completion OF the
route from Perry to Atlanta, and is
planning for a special dedicatory eel
ebration of it's "Road of Remem-
brance," for whose Identification the
organization is sponsor.
! Alarge delegation of Maconites
will meet the Observation-Disclosures
Motorcade on the Dixie Highway,
eight miles north of Macon, where
this patriotic organization of Macon
ladies has completed model mile,.
planted with shrubs and trees, in
memory of Bibb county's war veter-
ans. Governor-elect L. G. HardeInan
will deliver special address on this
occasion, when a patriotic program
will be the feature.
The Fitzgerald Community Band,
of sixty pieces, will participate. Mrs.
Charles Alderman, director for Geor-
gia of the Auxiliary, will be in
charge of the arrangements, assist
ed by Mrs. Orren Massey, of Macon,
president of the National Dixie High
way Auxiliary.
A reception will be given the mo-
florists and their ladies at the Demp-
sey Hotel, where the Fitzgerald band
will play concert on the balcony,
. and where prominent speakers will
! address the visitors.
II Broadcast From WMAZ
I Speakers and the Fitzgerald Com
munity Band, with Mr.. Burr Stokoe,
baritone, and Miss Marjorie Owens,
contralto, will broadcast from The
Mercer University station, WMAz,
at $3.50 P. mi ,en May "a tn. The pro-
gram is being arranged by Prof. r.
Glen Johnsoa; leader of the band.
Other RsStes to Join Motorcade
The eastern and western branches
of .thespixiA Highway and the Nation
ytAl Highway. AL of which center il
Macon, and of which the.-completed
highway from Atlanta to Macon
forms part of their respective routes
will Jointly celebrate on this occasion
with the Central Dixie Highway As
sociation and join the monster parade
with motorcades from their respective
territories The caravan of autos will
leave Macon at 8 A. NJ on May 25th
for Atlanta, stopping at each of the
communities en- route. The Fltzger-
aid Community Band will detrain at
each of the stops and play, and spe-
cial speakers will be named to respond
to addresses from local orators along
the route.
Hundreds of Cars to Reach Macon
South Georgia will have hundreds
Of cars in the caravan when it reach
es Macon, and it is expected that
more than thousand cars will enter
Atlanta, headed by the Atlanta Police
Band and the Fitzgerald Community
Band, for whose convenience the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
has rendered one of their de luxe
sightseeing buses, to drive through
Atlanta and to the destination of the
visitors, accompanied by a platoon Of
motorcycle police, and marshalled by
James L, Beavers, chief of police of
Atlanta.
/ Seeing Georgia
Traversing from Florida to Atlanta
through the center of Georgia, with
it's wonderful agricultural and horti-
cultural section, it's manufacturing
cities and the vast development made
in the past few years along the entire
route, the visitors will become i'm
pressed with the potential future pos
sibilities of this great section of
great state.