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THE ENTERPRISE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY ' Williamston, North Carolina _^ rr — W. C. Manning ................ .. Editor »—■—— Subscription Price (Strictly cash in advance) 1 year _ 51.50 £ months 3 months - -45 Entered at the post office at Williamston, N. C. as second-class matter under the act of March 3, 18 79 . , . , Address all communications to The Enterprise ——— — u . _ . --5 Who Is the Keeper of the Bridge? There seems to be some controversy iibout the responsibility for the care of Whitley's bridge. The county commissioners have no^ tified Messrs. R. S. Critchcr and Sons to rebuild the bridge, because they drive a heavy truck over the bridge frequently. The Messrs. Critcher say they w.ill not rebuild the bridge, as they are travelers within the law, that they pay a license tax to operate a truck over the public highways of the State, a fid that the truck is loaded , % according to its taxable schedule. They say they are not individually liable for the roads and bridges any more than arc the othe.r users of the road, and for these reasons they are not going to obey the order of the board. While this controversy exists, the bridge stands in a very dangerous condition and is almost impassible. This brings up the question t.t the automobile license tax moneys i.ll going to the State road fund, leav ing nothing for the secondary or la teral roads of the various counties, The State has raised the carrying ca Prosperity Just Around the Corner Much is being .saiil these days about the prosperity just ahead. Well, that if good news. It is like emerging lrom the grip of a great storm or the rescue from a thorny desert, just to think of coming through the great upheaval that we have passed through during the; war period. Mr. Coolidge has just said, "My ad ministration lias brought the country its greatest prosperity." A great daim, and it is true for a.few folks; but with the great mass of AmericansJ it is a gigantic falsehood. Now, when we hear such loud pre dictions for immediate prosperity it reminds us that it is almost election time again. Hut it makes us feel better to hear that prosperity is coming. It makes Traffic Accidents for First Half of 1926 The North Carolina Highway Com mission has just come out with its report of accidents on the State high way system for the first si* months of this year. The report shows that 75 person were killed and 660 were 19th Series Opens September 4,1926 The Martin County Building and Loan Association will open its 19th series on Saturday, September 4. The greatest campaign ever put on by the local associa tion will be staged and several hundred shares will be sold. The building and loan has been functioning for several years in this county and is considered to be an institution for safe investment. , - Consult our officers or directors for information relative to a loan or a method by which you can make a sound consistent investment. OFFICERS: P. B. Cone, President; C. A. Harrison, Vice President; Wheeler Martin, Secretary V - N . , * * •——' * • A » W * ' 1 , v - , , . • .. • • , Martin County Budding and Loan Association DIRECTORS: John D. Biggs, P. B. Cone, C. D. Carstarphen, C. A. Harrison, K. B, Crawford, B. M. Worsley, V. G. Taylor, N. C. Green, E. P. Cunningham purity of the highways until loads are passing on the St#te system of high ways that can not safely go over the by-roads. The State legislature will doubtless be called upon in some early , day to use some portion of the auto tax on the county highways instead of all on the State. Less than a fourth of the Martin County roads are embraced In the State highway system and all the li cense tax money goes to that one fourth of its mileage. N'or is this all, all the gasoline tax goes to the Stat* roads and none to the county roads. The board of commissioners have a right tp abolish the Poplar Point road and take down the Whitley bridge. Hut they are inviting trouble by let ting the bridge stand in an unsafe and dangerouS>fondition. The man who suffers a property loss, or who suffers a personal injury will have a right to inquire in court who the lawful keeper of the bridge is. It would seem that the risk is too treat justify delay in making re- us happy and makes us laugh; and since happiness and plenty of laugh ter gives us good health, then we will bb the better, even wtih the mere pre diction of good times ahead. Keally there is an honest hope for some better conditions for the crop producers. In the period of readjust-1 merit the little fellow has been the greatest sufferer. He has always got ten little enough and when the crash came he went even lower than his old low level. Assuming that half of the predic tions are true, and the prosperity goes to all channels of industry and pro duction in equal proportions, then eastern Carolina will reap a rich re ward from its fine crops QOW grow ing. . . . i injured. For the year ending July 1, there were, in the first district, which in cludes this county, 20 people killed. We were led by only one district, the sixth, where there were 26 killed. The The Story of the Last Duel Fought in This Section Colonel Edward C. Yellowly, who was born on a farm adjoining the old Skewarkee church, a mile and a half from Williamston, about the year achieved sufficient prominence that I would like to place his name your list of historical sketches of Martin County men. It is always interesting to follow cloaely the walk of a man from the cradle to the grave; and whether he does much or little, whether he is >-ood or bad, his history is written step by step, deed by deed, in the minds of the peeple about him. We, however, only place the names of our leaders on the pages of written his tory; the less prominent are seldom mentioned. Edward C. Yellowly was the son of Edward Yellowly, whose name ap pears in a public way in our county in the latter part of the 1700 period. Early in the nineteenth century he was the only hotel man, or innkeeper, in Williamston. He operated the old Yellowly Hotel, located on the now deserted hill in front of the convict camp and later on the lot where T. C. Cook's house now stands, adjoin k Tj ing the old courthouse. The elder Yellowly sold a plot of ground to William McKenzie, chair man of the board of town commis sioners, in 1797, to be used for a grave yard (now called cemetery). This plot was located on the south side of the main road leading to Hali fax, which passed from where the present cemetery is now located and number injured in this district wni 211, again exceeded by only one other district, the seventh, where 232 were injured. The fact that only three of the 76 deaths so far this year were unavoid able is very significant and means that there were 72 persons killed who should not have been. Speeding gets the biggest toll, tak ing 20; then comes in old careless ness that snuffs out 12 more; next is liquor with 10; blinding lights caused * the death of 4; walking on the high way, 6; inexperienced drivers, 1; fault of car, 2; cars parked on highway, 2; unknown, 9. Nearly every death was caused by some illegal act. The laws governing traffic will do little good until there is a better ob servance; and nothing but a strong popular demand will cause people to respect the traffic laws. The suggestion that a tombstone with a human skeleton painted on it should be erected on every spot along the roadside where a fatal accident occurs might cause people to think and make them more careful.. Lec tures to the schools, women's clubs, and all other civic clubs and organi zations on the proper way to handle en automobile might help by mak ing people think. entered the town diagonally across the Hassell property, crossing what is now Main Street at the corner where Harrison Brothers store is now lo cated, and passed by the Duggan property, now J. G. Godard's home. The grave yard plot was located with in half a block of where the Episco pal Church now stands. It was usecf by the town as a cemetery for a num ber of years, but was later abandoned. It is now not only gone but forgot ten. ' ' , ' t We find .Edward, the elder Yellow ly, did not give all of his attention to the dead, because 25 years later, in 1828, he was helping to care for the living by selling land for a church ground. He conveyed one and a half acres of land to Elder Joseph D. Biggs and Deacons Ward and Harri son, upon which land old Skewarkee Church was built. This was located Bt the fork of a road about a half mile south of where the present Ske warkee Church is located, v We can not say whether he wor shipped in his own church or was buried in his own grave yard, as he apparently, so far as history goes, dropped from the scene of action. We then find the son, young Ed v-ard C. Yellowly, at the Greenville I Academy ynder the tutelage of the famed Professor J. M. Lovejoy. From there he went to Pittsboro and thru the University of North Carolina. In 1843 the supreme court of the State granted him license to practice law, and he located in Greenville, where he succeeded well in his pro fession. The sad period of his life followed five years later. He had matched wits with Another younjf lawyer of the Greenville bar, H. F. Harris, in a very notable trial held in that county. The satire of young Yellow ly so enraged Harris that he chal lenged him to a duel. Yellowly Ac cepted, over his feeling that it was wrong; but in that day it was cow ardly not to face your adversary. So it was a case of face death or deny ing his manhood before the public. Dueling was then, as now, illegal, and each of the young men was ar rested and placed under a peace bond for one year. The day after the bond expired Harris again challenged him, and he again accepted, which was the only thing for a gentleman to do, though it was with much reluctance on the part of young Yellowly, who had no hatred in his hatred in ere.pY had no hatred in his heart against Harris. In October, 1847, these two bril liant young lawyers left Greenville armed for the duel. Accompanied by seconds, friends, and a referee they stopped on the banks of the Dismalj SwUmp Canal, near little towns of Deep Creek and Wallacetown, and on what is now known u the Georgs Washington SUte Highway. Killing was not in Yell6wly's heart. He had his second to appeal to his adversary to call off the duel, but he refused, the pace was fixed, and the call to face and fire came forth. Harris's shot went wikl. Yehowly fired his gun in the air; and again asked for a reconciliation, which Har ris refused, saying that he had come there for blood and'would have it. The next round was called. Har ris's shot again went wild, but If el lowly felled him dead with a bullet through his forehead. Yellowly and his friends proceeded i to mount and rode away, but he was arrested and taken before old 'Spiire Wallace, where he was released. Harris was hauled away in a coffin made by a wheelwright who had a shop by the side of the road. " Our laws are not perfect nor are our practices perfect, yet we MM a little higher in t!ie numan scale than our ancestors of a hundred years ago. This incident seemed to cast a shadow over the life of this young lawyer, which he never Anally was able to live down. When the Civil War broke out, he' made up a company of volunteers and was commissioned captain. He was a candidate for a seat in the Confederate Congress, though was »nid to have been counted out and re mained in the army, where he was promoted to the rank of Colonel. After the war closed in 1865 he re turned to Greenville and continued ""Charles William Stores inc. 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After remaining there lor a year or more he became convinced that neither the beauties .of the moun tain skies nor the breath of the bal sam could put the vigor of youth in the body of an old man. He died there in 1885 and was carried to the home of his adoption and was buried in Maple wood Cemetery, Greenville. He was never married, and the Yel iowly name has faded from the roll of Martin County citizens, even though it was in a way a prominent family once in the history »f our county. Thus it is seen that when we are born i we do not know tile course we may run. Yet we may expect to be soon forgotten. WHERE THE HAPPY MAN LIVES A certain man recently publicly stated that he was very happy. In quiry was at once made as to where he lived. He said a place called "Within my income." Lots of folks have never even made a short visit to that place. SALE OF LAND FOR TAXES I, H. T. Robcrson, sheriff of Martin County, have this day levied on the following tracts or parcels of land, and will sell the same at public auction for cash before the courthouse door of Martin County on September 8, for tuxes due and unpaid for the year 1926, unless the taxes and costs are paid on.or before that date: Williamston Township * - i Taxes Cost Total John L. Hassell, 3 stores on Main St., 1 residence —5615.80 fl.Bo $017.60 (lalvin Hassell, 1-7 interest in Hassell home place 44.00 1.80 46.80 This the 4th day of August, 1926. * I U 6 4tw H. T. ROBERSON, Sheriff. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the authori ty contained in that certain deed of trust executed to the undersigned trustee on the 26th day of April, 1926, by H. L. Hardison and wife, Mary Hardison, and of record in the public registry of Martift County in book Q-2, at page 386,. said deed of trust having been given to secure a certain note of even date and tenor there with and the stipulations therein con tained not having been complied with and at the request of the parties in terested, the undersigned trustee on Monday, September 6, 1926, in front of the courthouse door in the town of Wiiliamston, North Carolina, offer for sale at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, the fol lowing described real estate: First tract: All my right, title, and interest in and to that tract of land containing acres in Griffins Town ship, Martin County, North Carolina, adjoining the lands of J. R. Tyre and N. R. Tice on*the north; the lands of Dennis-Simmons Lumber Co. on the east; lands of Sarah F. Roberson on the south; and Sweeten Water Creek | on the west. Secopd tract: All right, title, and interest in and to that tract of land in Griffins Township, Martin County, containing 60 acres, adjoining the lands of J. R. Tyre on the north; th» lands of H. L. Hardison on the east; lands of Frank May on the west and the lands of Sarah F. Hardison on the south. This the 3rd day of August, 1926. WHEELER MARTIN, a 6 4tw Trustee.
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