Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-03
Southern Iouua Items

| Somers, of Ottumwa and Sam S. Eos
ter, Of Mason city. The latter is presi-
dent and the former secretary and
| treasurer of the new corporation. The
change in the operation of this old and
well known hotel marks the departure
from the business Of the Manchester
family which has been in charge of
the Ballingall hotel since 1888. Fol-
lowing the death of Col. j. c. Man
chester June 20. 1903. p. A. Manchester
took charge and June 20, last year, he.
too, died, leaving the control of the
business In the hands of his wife and
mother, who made H. B. Somers man
ager. t1q4
Keokuk.
Carl Pappas, young Greek of %
years, who eloped to Fort Madison
with Miss Elizabeth Brown. an IL
year-old girl. and married her there,
may find the bridegroom's pathway
thorny one. Under the Iowa law the
marriage is no marriage at all. Neither
the girl nor her parents could legally
consent to her marriage. The county
attorney is likely to prosecute Pappas
| for enticing girl away for immoral
| purpose. And the parties who sWore
| the young lady was IS years of age
face prosecution for perjury. Miss
Browns parents are highly respectable
people. 81 F.ef
! keokuk. s.l.
| Three hundred fifty students are now
taking daily instructions in the Keokuk
| high school, which is by far the largest
number that has ever been registered
| in the local school. The enrolment is
also larger by half a hundred than that
for any term for the past seven years.
| With one of the most up to date
courses of study offered and a large
well trained and capable faculty, the
local high school ranks we'll toward the
| top Of the list of high schools in the
state for efficiency. AL classes are now
going along as usual and work for the
second half Of the school year is
started in earnest. At first several cases
of hardness were "chalked" up against
pupils coming in from the grammar
school.
Des Moines.
The death of Conrad Milan. 10, at
the insane ward Of the county farm
Sunday, closed an, interesting life. At
one time. Milan was one of the wealth.
lest men in Polk county. His brother
Henry Milan, was murdered about
thirty-fve years ago on his farm near
| the eastern line Of Polk county. At
that time Henry Milan owned a well
stocked farm. Five years were spent
in locating Conrad, the only living rel
alive. Soon after Conrad was given
| the property he sold it and entered
a life of seclusion in smaller prop
erty. He spent much time in his shack
! and was seldom seen. This life, to-
gether with excessive drinking, event
ually carried him into a semi insane
| condition. At times he would take his
| gun and shoot at the people passing
by. Once he shot at q brakeman on a
passing Rock Island train. Author-
ties took charge of him and attempted
to settle his estate which had crumbled
into poverty.
Fort Madison.
| There passed away on Thursday, at
the home of her son. John T. Overton,
near the old hamlet of Clay Grove, in
this county, Eliza Overton, who pos
sibly was the oldest person living in
the county at the time of her death.
! Certainly she was the Oldest Lee coun
] ty pioneer and was the last of the
pioneers of the first class, which was
an honorary distinction made by the
| pioneer and old settlers association,
embracing those that settled in Lee
county prior to July ], 1910. and had
reached the age Of FL years when they
came. Eliza Bunner was born in Old
Virginia, March Is, 1917. and had she
been permitted to live two years, one
month and eighteen days longer. she
! would have rounded out full century.
The ashes left from the burning Of old
Fort Madison were scarcely cold when
she was born, and one or two OF the
J blackened chimneys of the fort were
stiil standing when she crossed the
river here in 1888. Previously to her
coming to the Wisconsin territory. she
lived short time in Ohio. On the
goth day Of September 1s41, at West
Point. she was married to Elias Over
: ton, who came to the county in 1886.