Iowa's Youngest Mayor

COLE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 6/28/2009 at 00:16:43

Bellevue Leader, October 13, 1887.

Hon. Eli Cole, mayor of Bellevue, is one of the delegates to the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. Eli is the youngest mayor in the state of Iowa, but that is not to be wondered at, as he has the “git there” qualities which always attend that name. We can remember when we initiated Eli into the Amphyction Literary Society and how the boys put him up and made him get hold to the old flag. Mr. Cole is as enthusiastic a Knight of Pythias as he was a college society member.-Cedar Rapids Gazette.