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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
Greek Premier Resigns

On September II, Premier Zaimas, Of
Greece, presented his resignation to King
Constantine, giving as his reason that, ow-
ing to constant difficulties arising of late,
he was unable to carry out negotiations Of
the greatest Importance. --latest Athens
reports state that his resignation has been
accepted.
London reports state that should Greece
now decide to join the allies, it will do so
without any guarantee for the future.
There was time when the quadruple en-
tente was ready to offer Greece territorial
advantage in return for military assis-
tance, but that time has gone by, it is
claimed The only condition assured is
that the allies will place munitions and
equipment at the disposal of the Greek
government
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last year Of 100000 bushels; North
Dakota, 39,997 900 bushels, compared to
151, 100000 bushels year ago, and South
Dakota, 22,1S3,O00 bushels, compared to
81 100000 bushels in 1915. Only in Wash
ington was there fair spring wheat crop,
the yield being placed at 18,443,OOO
bushels, compared to 19,758,O00 bushels in
1915.
The reduction of the spring wheat con-
dition brings the forecast of the entire
wheat crop for 1916 down to only GIL ,OOO,-
900 bushels which is not more than the
normal domestic requirement, and com
pares with an estimated production OF
slightly more than 1,OO0,0O0,OO0 bushels
last year, and yearly average, for the
preceding five years, of 738,OOO,OOO
bushels.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
EUROPEAN WAR NOTES
Turtukai and Silistria taken by German
Bulgarian Troops

The sudden thrust of Bulgarian and
German troops, begun more than week
ago, against the border defences guarding
Bucharest the Roumanian capital, has met
with marked success.
Roumanian troops were forced to eva
cuate the town of Turtukai otherwise pro-
nounced Tutraken), on the Danube on
September 7, after a three days battle,
in which more than 10000 Roumanian
troops were taken prisoner, together with
the loss Of numerous guns and large sup
plies. This was followed, three days later,
by the capture Of Silistria, on the south
ern bank of the Danube. The fall of this
second powerful link in the Roumanian
border defences is admitted in London to
be a severe reverse to the allies.
Silistria, with Turtukai, formed the bas-
ton of the seventy-mile line of fortifca-
tions in the Dobrudja Province. The
German commander, however, now faces
mighty obstacles in an advance across the
Danube, which bristles with guns, trained
on every foot Of the stream where a eros
sing might be attempted.
Russian troops, according to London re-
ports, have been massed in great force in
southeastern Roumania, and have engaged
the Bulgars on the whole front from the
Danube to the Black Sea- They are fight
ing fiercely to wrest the offensive from the
invader
The Bulgarian and German offensive is
under the direction of Field-marshal Won
Mackensen, one of the ablest German
strategists, who bore a leading part, last
year, in the great German offensive against
Russia, and who later conducted the drive
through Serbia He is apparently play
ing his old game of trying to get at the
enemy from back door, thereby striking
at the most vulnerable point.
Bulgarians Defeated in Greek Macedonia
To counteract the Bulgarian offensive on
the southern border of Roumania, British
troops began an offensive against Bulgaria
in Greek Macedonia, September H. French
and Serbian troops later joined the British.
This new offensive of the entente allies
resulted, according to London reports, in
the defeat of the Bulgarians, after battle
lasting thirty-six hours.
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Evening Post, writing from Berlin, the

Evening Post, writing from Berlin, the
German people are becoming more and
more dissatisfied with the new government
food department.
Mr.. Ackerman claims that the optimis-
tic statements of Herr Won Batocki, the
new food dictator, regarding the food out
look, led the German people to believe
that by fall, conditions would be greatly
improved. Instead Of becoming more
plentiful, however, food supplies are be-
coming more and more organized, until,
within a short time, if the distribution of
cards continues, food will be on an abso-
lutte ration basis.
At present, each family is entitled to
eight different kinds of food cards. They
are issued for bread, potatoes, sugar, fats,
milk, meat, eggs, and one for dried vege-
tables, saccharine, and oatmeal.
A growing shortage of marmalade and
cheese may necessitate the adding Of two
more cards to the list
Lack of sugar, tin, and rubber prevents
many families from doing their own can
ming, which is having big effect on can
ming factories The factories are using sac
charine and syrup made of carrots for
sweetening. The shortage of tin is caus
ing many factories to dry food which here
tofore has been canned
Because Of a growing shortage of milk,
new regulations have been issued whereby
milk is delivered to families with children
under ten, and to sick people.
The harvest this year was about twenty
five per cent better than that of last year
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
Zion Educational Institutions

TION Educational Institutions Kindergarten Junior Schools
IL Preparatory Department, Department of Music c-wl
Street Monday, September Is, 1916.
Special announcement regarding the Department of Expression
and the Department Of Art will be made the meeting Shiloh
tabernacle Lords Day afternoon
Up time Thursday morning September 4th six hundred
and nifty applications for admission Zion Educational nstu
tions have been received.
Registration day will be Friday September 22nd
On Monday morning September 25th the entire staff of
teachers together with all pupils and students will assemble Shiloh
nace Shiloh Boulevard Elijah Avenue Street the
College Building
button and in the Zion Schools will be ZON the
minutest detail and everything will be keeping with the prn
cipes, the truths the ideas, and the ideals of Zion
No children people will be admitted the depart
ments of Zion Educational Institutions who attend
other meetings than those held under direction
directly indirectly affiliated with the opposition Zion and
Zion City.
We are willing to do anything everything we all who
desire principles truths IDEAS and IDEALS but foreign
elements of kind will be permitted Zion Educational nstu
The General Oversee of the Apostles will conduct the
devoona every and attendance will be compulsory
General Oveeer and Apostles will deliver addresses
only the student body different classes calculated
and bring and all into thorough harmony with Zion
Gods Movement for these last days.
position understand that Zion City founded the Private
Home of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church Zion and that
here contend earnestly for Zion and Zion City
With the opening Of Zion Schools Zion will then be more
truly organized with the four great departments
Educational, Commercial and Political
Now before, Zion will forward and all officers
enthusiasm the great work which God has entrusted to hands
the ends of the earth to build Zion City, and
could there foolish thing than for people to
thousand miles live Zion City and then send
their boys and girls to schools like those they left.
who the blessings of Zion take their stand for God
get back the Tabernacle and altogether forward
carry successfully the glorious work which begun here
sixteen years ago.
Happy indeed the individual who cam Il began the job
of building Zion City sixteen and am still on the job
The General Overseer ready and all times and
persons who during the of testing have been disturbed
and perplexed will do everything possibly within
the right help all such back the Tabernacle
to Join in the glorious work of building City for God.
God that the day has for the reestabshment OF
Zion Educational institutional
With faith in God and in the officers members and friends OF
the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Ion forward
We appreciate your love- your prayers and hearty
operation
May God richly bless you all!
Faithfully in Jesus Name,
WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
Kenosha Meetings

The principal meeting of the Kenosha
Branch of the Christian Catholic Apos-
tolic Church in Zion is held every Lords
Day in Carpenter Hall at 1000 a. m.
Deacon A. E. Johnson will conduct
the service Lords Day, September II,
1916.
Kenosha, Wisconsin, Restoration work
done Lords Day morning, September
10, 1916, by Deacon Alex. S. Burgess
and the following workers: Dea. O. w.
Farley, Dea. James Innes, Mr.. 7. C. Bar
clay, Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Goodwin, Mrs.
Gilbert and Mrs. Dunn.
Zion Messages distributed. :. .210
LEAVES OF HEALING sold. =. 81
Total number of pieces distrib-
uCed ........ ZOl
1 ten weeks trial subscription
to LEAVES OF HEALING received.
Deacon Burgess reports that the Res
torationists were we'll received and re-
turned with great joy, praising God for
the privilege of working for Him.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
BOTH LOWDEN AND DUNNE WIN
NOMINATIONS

In the Illinois primaries of last We'd
nesday, Frank O. Lowden won the Re
publican nomination for governor, by a
heavy plurality.
Governor Edward F. Dunno was renom-
mated by the Democrats.
At present writing, incomplete returns
show the denomination on the Republican
ticket for George Edmund Foss, in the
tenth congressional district.
A special feature Of election results was
the defeat of William Lorimer in the sixth
district.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
Drastic Retaliatory Measures

The revenue bill contains drastic pro-
visions, empowering the President to re-
taliate against foreign interference with
American commerce. Thi is feature is
directed especially against the blacklist
policy of the British government, the dis
elimination against American commerce,
interference with American mails, and en-
bargoes on American products. 1t has,
perhaps, attracted more editorial comment
than any other, and is regarded by some
with extreme apprehension.
An editorial in the Chicago Tribune
says:
'The power vested in the president by
the reprisal provisions added to the emer-
gency revenue bill at the last moment have
immense potentialities. It should be un-
derstOOd that if exercised they open the
gate to war We have got accustomed
through the diplomatic crises of the last
two years to underestimate forceful pro-
nOuncements, but we ought not to drift
into the dangerous assumption that the
phrases Of our statecraft are always to be
taken or will always be taken by other
governments in the Pickwickian sense.
TO deny to the nationals of friendly
powers the necessary agencies of business,
the mails, the telegraph, the express,
would bring about a sharp crisis in our
relations To withhold clearance papers
from their shipping would be tantamount
to impounding it. and would bring about
not merely prompt protest but if that
did not avail, reprisals which could hardly
fail TO lead to armed hostilities. -
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REVENUE BILL, DESIGNED TO RAISE
$205,OO0,0O0 YEARLY, PASSED BY
CONGRESS

The new revenue bill, the most far
reaching in scope of any in American his
tory, and designed to raise $205,OOO,OOO
year in addition to the normal amount.
was passed by Congress, September 7,
The essential features Of the measure are
as follows:
INCOME TAX-Normal income tax in
creased from l to per cent. Exemptions
allowed on incomes of $4,000 for single
persons, and $4,000 for married. Addi-
tional taxes levied on incomes above $780,
600. Incomes of 100000 to $4,000 taxed
B per cent; $4,000 to 100000, per cent;
100000 to $150,0O0, per cent; graduated
scale levied to 13 per cent on incomes be-
tween $150,OOO to 100000.
CORPORATION TAXES-Net income
tax raised from 1 to per cent. Applies
to all corporations, joint stock companies,
insurance companies; but not partner
ships. Corporations, joint stock com
panies associations = fifty cents for each
$1,000 of capital, surplus, and undivided
profits, including investments. Exemption
Of $4,000 allowed
INHERITANCE estate of dece-
dent, whether a resident or nonresident,
is taxable as follows:
Net estate not in excess of $4,000, 10 {;
to $150,0OO, 296; up to $25O,OOO, go; up
to $450,O0O, 40; up to $1OOOOOO $50;
up to 100000, go; to $3,OOO,OOO, 796;
to 100000, $50; to $5,0OO,OOO, go; ex-
ceeding $5,OOO,OOO 1919.
MUNITIONS-M Manufacturer of explo-
sives, shells, torpedoes, fire arms of any
kind, small arms, electric motor boats,
submarines, taxed 1212@6 of entire net
profits.
BROKERS-Stock brokers, $50; pawn
brokers, $50 ship brokers, $40; custom
house brokers, $40.
There is also a tax on liquors. tobacco,
and amusement places.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD

to investigate and advise Congress on tariff
revision. 1t also increases the duties on
dye-stuffs, to encourage their manufacture
in the United States, and provides means
to prevent the dumping Of cheap foreign
made goods into American markets after
the war.
The special stamp taxes on documents,
such as recorded papers, evidences Of
transfers and securities, and similar obi
cations, were eliminated.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
DISCHARGE OF TWELVE NATIONAL
GUARD REGIMENTS, ORDERED

Orders were issued by the war depart
ment, September 7 for the discharge from
federal service as soon as practicable, OF
twelve national guard regiments, COM
prising about $4,000 men, recently with
drawn to their home states from the Mexi-
can border, and also number Of smaller
organizations Of some 1,5OO college and
university students.
The states affected are Illinois, New
York, Missouri, New Jersey, Maryland,
Carolina Oregon, Washington, and Louis
lana. -
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
LOCAL NEWS
TRANSFORMATION IN INTERIOR
OF ZION COLLEGE BUILDING
WORK RUSHED IN PREPARATION FOR
OPENING OF ZION SCHOOLS

WORK RUSHED IN PREPARATION FOR
OPENING OF ZION SCHOOLS
Extensive decorations are underway
in the interior of Zion College Building,
in preparation for the opening of Zion
Schools on Monday, September 25.
Evangelist Cunningham, with force
OF thirteen men, has been bending every
effort to get the building ready in the
short space of time allotted for the work.
However, it has been simply impossible
to complete the task by September 18,
the time originally set for the opening
of school. The date has therefore been
postponed to September rs.
There are forty-four rooms, in all, on
the four floors of the building, exclusive
of the basement. These rooms, for the
most part, are large and commodious,
several of them being larger than the
auditorium of an ordinary country
church.
All ceilings of rooms and Railways
throughout the building are being deco
rated in light cream colors. Various
tintings are used, owing to the amount
of light admitted at the doors and win
dows of each room. South rooms are
done in cold colors, and north rooms in
warm colors, with a gradation of tints
in the rooms intervening.
The side walls throughout the build
ing are decorated in tans, with shadings
of light brown, and medium. They are
trimmed in dark brown, giving stately
and dignified effect.
New transoms, with Florentine glass,
are being placed throughout the build
ing, and all blackboards reslated.
Zion College Building is an ideal 10
cation for Zion Schools. All children
can be easily accommodated, without the
slightest crowding or inconvenience.
The first floor will be devoted to the
kindergarten and primary departments;
the second floor, to art and music and
the departmental departments the third
floor, to the preparatory department.
The fourth floor is occupied, for the
most part, by the auditorium. The
birds eye view of Zion City which can
be obtained from this floor is unexcelled
for loveliness, especially in looking to-
ward the east, with Lake Michigan in
the distance, or south along Enoch Ave
nue..
The basement of Zion College Build
ing is being cleaned and decorated
throughout, in preparation for it's oc-
cupancy by the manual training depart
ment One large room is already fitted
up with a long row of carpenters
benches.
The entire building is heated by a
two-hundred-h horse power boiler
A broad cement walk has been laid at
the entrance of the building on Enoch
Avenue, leading from the sidewalk to
the street. It is twenty-one feet long
by twelve feet wide A cement curbing
has been placed, upon which persons can
alight from carriages when entering the
building.
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They claim that this estimate is con-
servative.
Some Austrian experts and a number
of Germans have estimated the Russian
losses at more than 100000, and the com
bined British and French losses at more
than 100000. Official casualty lists given
out at London show British losses of about
900 for the month of August alone.
The German experts claim that against
these losses, the allied armies have only
the conquest of Bukowina and some Cali
clan territory by the Russians, the capture
of Goritz by the Italians, a comparatively
shallow thrust into the German lines on
the Somme, and the occupation of noun
famous Transylvanian territory by the
Roumanians, as positive military achieve
Continued on page 1927
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
GERMANY MAY SOON BE ON RATION
BASIS

According to Carl W. Alderman, United
Press staff correspondent of the Chicago
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
Other Important Features

The revenue bill also creates a non
partisan tariff commission Of five members,
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
BERLIN ASSERTS ALLIES HAVE
GAINED COMPARATIVELY LITTLE
IN GREAT GENERAL OFFENSIVE,
AND AT HEAVY COST IN MEN

German military experts estimate that
the allies have lost more than million
men in killed, wounded, and missing since
the grand offensive against the central
powers from all sides opened with the
Russian attack, three months ago. They
estimate the allied losses as follows:
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-16
B | r T H S
IN ZION FAMILIES

To Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Green, of
1906 Hermon Avenue, September 8, a
boy.
To Mr. and Mrs. L. Hanson, of 2716
Elizabeth Avenue, September 2, girl
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NEWPORT

Several well-known business and pro-
fessional men Of Corinna have formed
an organization to be known as the
Country Club, with headquarters about
two miles from town. and a vast
amount of enthusiasm has been aroused
concerning this latest social activity.
On Saturday evening the members as
sembled at the club house as the guests
of DR.. J. J. McVety, the affair being
given by the doctor as a fitting celebra-
ton Of the honor recently conferred
upon him by the members when he was
elected as president of the organization
The menu Saturday night included
chicken pie and other tempting viands.
The affair was very enjoyable one
The officers of the club are as follows
Pres. DR.. J. ]. McVety; vice president,
Fred Durham; treasurer. c. II. Shorey;
secretary, F. r. Coburn. An interest
ing winter season is confidently EXPECT
ed by the organization.
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COLE OWES $751;
0O0--SAYS FREDER-
lex SHOULD PAY ALL

Portland, Me-. Dec. 13.-In the wake
OF the somewhat noted John l. Fred
erick bankruptcy case, which entan-
gled several well-to-do men in the
eastern section of the State five or six
years ago. comes a late aftermath in
the petition filed yesterday in the
United States District court, by Willis
+. Cole. clerk of Winterport, whose
liabilities are named at $4,000. and
who claims that all of them should be
paid by Frederick.
The liabilities consist almost wholly
of notes endorsed by Cole as he claims
at the request of Frederick. The big
gest creditor is the Bucksport Ma
tional bank. which holds notes agere-
eating over s12,5OO.
At the time that creditors brought
bankruptcy proceedings against Fred
erlck, half a dozen years ago. he
claimed that his chief business was
farming. and that he was thus ex-
empted under certain phase of the
law, but the court ruled that he was
a potato broker, and he was adjudged
in bankruptcy. Then a half dozen in
terlocklng suits came up, many So
called potato kings were involved.
Coles case is the latest.
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Probate Court

Probate Court adjourned yesterday
until next Tuesday for further attention
to the business of the December term.
Judge c. Q. Small presided as usual and
out of town attorneys present were
Judge John F. Holman of Athens. Judge
Augustine Simmons of No. Arson, Judge
o. H. Drake. J. w. Manson. Pittsfield,
George Weeks Of Fairfield and Royden
V. Brown of Bingham. A large amount
of business was transacted. an import
ant feature being the necessary legal
transactions relative to the inheritance
tax due from the estate of the late Cor
don Dobson of Pittsfield which amounts
to sS347.41. Among the wills presented
for probate was that of Jefferson Saw
age. late of Skowhegan. By the terms
of this document, his widow, Mrs. Flora
Savage was named as executor and is TO
receive the bulk of the property, his SIX
children having been bequeathed one
dollar each. The will was made OCTOBER
4. 1916. The will Of DR.. Ivory Iowa
late Of Canaan was also presented TOT
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A MAINE BOY.
Col. c. r. Potter Of the Engineer Corps
Born at Lisbon Falls.

Col Charles r. Potter, Corps of En-
gineers, U. S. Army, who succeeds the
late Col Craighill in charge of the en-
gineer Office in Boston, is a former Lis
bon Falls boy. Colonel Potter came to
Boston from Portland. Oregon, where as
lieutenant colonel ne had charge of
river and harbor work. Before that he
was at st. Paul and Duluth, where he
built the largest breakwater in this
country on Lake Superior. Col. Potter
is the son of the late Benjamin Potter,
the brother of Mrs. George E. Williams,
Miss Sara Potter, Capt. John H. Potter,
all of Lisbon Falls, and Fred c. Potter
Of the Bath Iron Works. He was born
at Lisbon Falls and received his edu-
cation at the Mari district school and
at the Lisbon Falls High school, in the
early days before graduations. While
attending the high school he took the
competitive examinations for West
Point Military Academy. and was APP
pointed to go there by the late Cong.
Nelson Dingley. He graduated in the
class of 1882 from West Point. A MEM
Der Of his class was Col Craighill.
whose place he takes, and to the time
Of the death of the former they were
great friends. Gen. Pershing, who had
charge of the punitive expedition into
Mexico, was the president Of Col. Pot
ter's class, and they, too, are great
friends. Col. Potter has seen active
army service. as he was volunteer
colonel during the instruction in the
Philippines. Since that. he has been
again in the engineering department.
and now won a merited promotion to
one of the most important posts in the
country. His brother. Capt. John Pot
ter. saw military service during the
Spanish-American War as the captain
of collier in the navy.-Bath Times.