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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

ing capacity of about 1000, and will
be cooled this summer with the 'ty-
phoon system" and is built SO that
almost the entire sides can be opened
in the hot weather, thereby allowing
the most perfect ventilation. The
building is also steam heated, being
the only theater in the city SO equip
ped.
Manager Hobgood believes in PEN
sacola and has perfect faith in it,
great opportunities for the future. SC
that now glorious peace has come tc
us, new plans have been drawn for the
enlargement of both the auditorium, as
we'll as the stage, which will be built
large enough and will be equipped
with every modern idea Of stage-craft
By the time 1919-20 seasons opens, the
enlarged Pastime theater, redecorated
steam heated for cold weather and
typhoon cooled for the hottest days
will be opened to the public. Together
with the beautiful and spacious lobby,
it will make one OF the prettiest play
houses in the southland. In the lobby
is. located one of the best equipped,
up-to-date soda fountains and cigar
stands, with tables and chairs where
those who wish may rest and partake
of refreshments, either before or after
seeing the show
a lover Of good music himself. Mr.,
I1obgood has increased the orchestra
to six pieces. making it the largest and
best In the city. Not content with
this. he intends to further increase its
efficiency by the addition Of still moro
instruments. A concert program of
the latest popular as well as classical
music will be rendered daily, except
ing Sunday, during the showing Of the
pictures.
The class OF photo plays now show
ing as well as those to be shown in
the future at this popular place Of
amusement. are of a better grade than
the average vaudeville house offers.
and on Sundays there will be the ex-
elusive showing of a William Fox
super photo play. featuring such well
known stars as Theda Bara, William
Farnum. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, Gladys
Brockwell, Tom. Mix and others and
an episide OF a good serial picture.
featuring some favorite Queen Of
Daredevilism."
In conclusion it might be said that
manager D. p. Hobgood of the Pas
time intends giving to Pensacolians a
chance to enjoy themselves in COM
fort in summer or winter. protected
ct all times against the inclemency CT
the weather. be it the heat Of summer
or the chilly blasts OF winter, in an
enlarged auditorium. with an up-to-
the minute stage. replete with every
modern necessity. Week days will
be presented a fine concert program.
good comedy photo play and the best
tabloid musical comedy company OBJ
tajnabie and when procurable one and
sometimes more added attractions. He
will present on certain night. the
highest class road shows that travel
south. On Sundays, the exclusive first
run William Fox super productions
and an episode of a favorite serial.
1t will be at all times the aim Of the
management to give to the patrons
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

the west si. ad about the middle OF
the block between Zarragossa and
Main streets. 1t was a ramshaclxle.
two-story brick structure which had
seen rough usage. Downstairs Were
the headquarters of the police depart
ment and the city jail was also there
Underneath the building, or on the
south side, were kept the citys mules.
Then, let imagination take full sway
again, and picture the mayor, clerk
and comptroller, the street sEperin-
tendent. the tax assessor and collector,
all having desks in the same room, not
only in the same building. / recall
that those conditions obtained during
the incumbency of Mayor Hiiliard.
Mayor Welles. Mayor Northup, Mayor
Mayor McHugh, Mayor Jones ana
others. Then Mayor Bliss was elected
and he started making improvements
from the start. One of the very first
things that Bliss did was to dis-as-
sociate the office of mayor and judge
of the police court. to create the Of
flee of recorder. The first man to fill
the place, as I now recall it, was
Judge Charles Laney. long since de-
ceased. Bliss planned great things,
among which was the bond issues
which guaranteed the civic improve
ments which have converted Pensa-
cola into a twentieth century place TO
live in But he did not live long
enough to take part in the dedication
of the city hall building, for when thai
place was reaching a state of compile
ton, he passed away after seeing the
building launched. and seeing it fair
Ixy o6y n
Mayor Goodman, who, by virtue of
holding the office of president of the
council, succeeded to the mayoralty
on the death of Mayor Bliss.
But improvements followed one an
other in quisk succession. The bond
issue was planned and L. Hilton
Green, 1 believe, was the first chair
man of the board of bond trustees.
The close application of duty on the
part of Mr.. Green gave to the city Its
first successful bond issue guaran-
teeing the city ownership of water
works, the miles of paved steets. about
thirty miles of sewerage and the city
buildings. In all these endeavors Mr..
Mayes was the city's best friend, III
my Judgment. He followed every
movement and kept the people care
fully Informed. 1t was the policy or
The Journal then, as now, to advise
with the city and the government.
thep had falling out, but
when it came to the advancement ami
upbuilding of the city, The Journal
has been a real and integral part
Sometimes I get to thinking if the
next twenty years will bring about as
many changes for the best as have the
past decade F.. d. SANDERS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30
BEST ISNONE
GOOD AT
THE PASIl|ME
BOTH MANAGEMENT AND PA
TRONAGE HAVE BEEN GRAFT.
FLED BY SUCCESS OF POPULAR
THEATRE.

After having had a precarious e.
istence under vicarious management,
the "Bijou'' theatre was re-opened
under its present name THE Pas
time" on November %, 1916. by Dan
iel z. Hobgood, showing pictures ex-
clusively at sc admission. 1t was
operated as such until July !, 1917,
when Manager Hobgood erected an air
dome, in the rear of the theater,
where he assayed to give once again
to Pensa colians a chance to see vau-
deyille and tabloid musical shows at
popular prices.
1t seemed as though the fates were
against his venture. for during the
first three weeks after the airdome
was opened to the public, the weather
was so bad that they were not able to
present more than seven perform
ances. The worst was yet to come,
for on the night of September 26. 1917,
ragged one of the worst storms that
Pensacola had been visited by in re-
cent years, and the airdome was
swept away in the storms fury.
However, neither storms or other
calamities could stop Manager Hob
good or dishearten him. so Phoenix
like" from the wreck of the old air.
dome. arose an inside stage in the
rear of the theater building proper
where to overcrowded houses, the var
ious companies performed under diff
fifulties. Early in the spring of 1918
Mr.. Hobgood was impressed with the
thought that Pensacolians would sup
port a theater which would give good
shows, so plans were drawn with the
idea of building a theater that would
have a large seating capacity and a
stage big enough to accommodate the
best shows on the road.
Contracts were even made with
Fields big minstrel show to open the
new house and the Klaw & Erlanger
bookings We're to follow. War re-
strictions on all building material
compelled Manager Hobgood to aban-
don all building on a large scale. AS
a consequence the present combina-
ton airdome and winter theater was
the result and the offerings shown
here have been limited to companies
that did not carry more people than
the amusements of the present stage
would permit
The present auditorium has a seat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30
.SANDERSGROWS
REMINISCENT
OF CI1Y'S PAST
.GMAYoR TELLS OF LACK OF. FA-
clLITiEs IN PENSACOLA AT
TIME JOURNAL STARTED,
Editor Pensacola Journal:

Editor Pensacola Journal:
As requested by you, 1 take pleasure
in handing you this article for your
special edition.
Imagine, if you please, a paveless,
sewerless, sidewalkless and a grade
less city; with no city hall, no police
headquarters, no city water plant;
with an unorganized fire department.;
with a private owned water plante;
with a town just emerging from the
horsecar stage; with no office build
ings. with practically no development
to speak of and with a bare 10000 peo-
pie. That is the picture we draw of
Pensacola when The Pensacola Jour-
nal first saw the light of day. That
is the sort of a town we lived in when
my good friend, Frank L. Mayes, with
his associates, determined to give the
city new life and energy by injecting
therein the influence of a clean, daily
paper, which has been a visitor to my
home ever since the day it first emer-
ged from the weekly stage when the
lamented William NJ. Loftin, father OF
my young friend, Scott NJ. Loftin, held
therein. Mr.. Loftin, as my memory
serves me, started The Weekly Jour
nal. and it was an unpretentious pub
LEGATION. Just how Mr.. Mayes became
interested in it, he has told me once
or twice, but the details I do not now
recall. Sufficient to say, however.
since he took hold, The Journal oe-
came an influence for good, and has
since kept up that pace. / am one CT
those men who have always looked on
The Journal as an aid to the towns
advancement, for everything that
promises good, we can always depend
on The Journal.
Now, to think of Pensacola in the
days of the birth of The Journal
brings to mind the great influence the
per has always welded for the up
lift of the place. AS I said in the be-
ginning, the city was without pave
ment, with the exception of five
blocks on Palafox street from. Main to
Garden streets); was practically with
out sewers, and the dangerous wooden
sidewalk was found in every direc-
ton. The city hall, the police station,
the offices of the different officers, the
meeting hall of the city council, the
mayors office, all were crowded into
a little room not as big as the pres
emit offices of the mayor. This build
ing stood facing Jefferson street, on
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

The first woman pensioned by the
United States government for heroic
deeds was Margaret Corbin. the heroine
of the battle of Fort Washington. Nov.
IS, 1776. When her husband was killed
In the battle Margaret took his place
at the gun and fought until struck
down with three grapeshot. which sew
cred an arm and tore away part OF her
breast. The government granted her
pension and congress by special res
olution made honorable mention of her
services. The wounds she received at
Fort Washington were such that they
were ultimately the cause of her death
in 1900. .ss se4..S.s.ss
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30
PENSACOLA ON
THRESHOLD OF
GREATEST ERA
HER NATURAL ADVANTAGES ARE
BEING AvAILED AND DEVELOP.
Ed SAYS WELL KNOWN PENsA-
coLlAN.

Why should We wonder at the mar
velous prosperity and development Of
this once Spanish village by the sea
when we remember that in the long
ago God created this bay large enough
to float the navies and commerce of
the world, and bar deep enough for the
great ocean steamships and battle
ships to float in safety to our harbor.
Through the slumbering centuries man
was content to use for commercial
profit this mighty gift without putting
forth his energies to develop and inn
prove IL.
About . decade ago our sleeping
limited possibilities. and since that
time Pensacola has been marching
forth to claim her own.
What did we have in Pensacola
twenty years ago? No sewerage nor
sanitation system. No paved concrete
sidewalks. No paved streets, save five
blocks on Palafox street. No great
hospitals, nor dry docks. only one
railroad equipped to coal steamships.
its service very crude and limited. No
oil filling station nor shipyards. No
high office buildings. nor great docks
stretching far out in to deep water.
with extensive warehouses-two rail-
roads under one management. Small
water works privately owned and OPP
Grated J One great wholesale grocery
busine9s. Steamships were loaded by
hand, slow dispatch. Two packing
houses with limited service.
What have we today? A fine sewer
age and sanitation system. concrete
sidewalks and paved streets stretch
kh by miles. A great hospital mod
equipped. which would do credit
pnor to a city Of two hundred
~ inhabitants.
BUR water front is dotted with
10 and another great dry dock
follow. Now three great rail-
\der two arrangements, both
Iquipped with large and up
1aling stations, where ves-
4 quick dispatch, and an oil
filling tanks for vessels
assured.
ut shipyards are reflected
utiful waters of our bay
for building mighty steel
wooden vessels.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

Jochim, %, youngest son of the ex-
kaiser of Germany. perhaps aspires to-
be king or to help his friend Rup-a
precht to become one. AT any rate
he is reported arrested in Bavaria
along with Prince Rupprecht and
Prince Leopold for mixing in the plot
to overthrow the popular government
and reestablish throne. Rupprecht
has never foresworn his right to the
Bavarian throne should the succession
come his way. From the top down,
in the picture, Joachim, Rupprecht apd
Leopold. ,.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

and friends of the Pastime theater the
utmost and the best procurable, as Nj.
Hobgood's motto is THE best is none
too good" and make the Pastime III
reality what ii is in name, "Pcnsart
cola's Popular Place of Amusement J,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

T. DIR. Elizabeth Turdon OF the Johns
Hopkins Medical school staff, has re-
turned to Baltimore after three years
service in Malta and Saloniki, where
she acted as surgeon with the Brit
ish medical corps.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

4 The centennial OF the birth of, Susan
Warner. author of 1.-The, Wide. Wide
World" and other novels that were
widely read In their day. will be cele-
brated next July.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

A million-doll appropriation Tor
mothers pensions is provided for in
a bill now before the Pennsylvania
legislature, sss4sF Ia .feraa4a a
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30

More women than men voted in the
recent election in Peekskill. y. Y.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-12
The Gateway of He'll
&C. B. w.

In an article which appeared in the Chi
cago Tribune, of February IA, DR.. w. A.
Evans declared that if the use of opium and
its derivatives in physicians prescriptions
could be stopped, there would be little diff
Guilty in SURPRISING the sale and use of
these drugs
He said that the trouble has been that
legislators have attempted to pass valid
law prohibiting the purchase of opium, at
the same time allowing it to be dispensed on
physicians prescriptions
1t is interesting to note that he produces
facts to show that even prominent ply
sicians are concluding that these drugs
are not so necessary in the treatment of
diseases as has been generally supposed,
and that in at least one tuberculosis SAM
tarium where they have been discontinued,
the patients, after the first few days, rested
normally and the plan has worked so we'll
that it has been kept up.
DR.. Evans gives some startling Stats
tics to show how generally these danger
Gus narcotics are dispensed on physicians
prescriptions. He states that the health
department inspectors, in examining pres
criptions filed in nine hundred drug stores
during October of 1918, found that out of
741 ,825 prescriptions, 1854 called for
opium, lO,OO3 for morphine, 50O91 for
codeine, 1882 for heroin, 1888 for CO.
caine and 1881 for miscellaneous prepar-
ations consisting largely of opium
Just think of all this hellish concoction!
Is not what the General Overseer has
said so often, true that, bad as a saloon is
with all its resultant horrors of wrecked car
GERS, poverty, crime and misery, drug
store, which is considered perfectly genteel
and respectable by the people at large, is far
worse-for, while the saloon sells whisky
the drug store sells a hundred poisons. in
Guiding whisky.
How much does the average person know
about the deadly danger which turks in
opium, cocaine and all the other narcotics
named by Dr. Evans? One who under
stands their nature would avoid them as he
would rattlesnake; in fact, they are far
more dangerous.
They transform bright intelligent, useful
citizens into cringing,, simpering, hollow
eyed fiends. They ruin them mentally,
physically and morally. They rob them of
every vestige of manhood Or womanhood
There is no crime the drug fend will hest
tate to commit to procure few grains of
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-12

the drug which has made him an abject
slave, rendering existence an absolute tor
ment.
The great majority of drug addicts have
become such through physician prescrib
ing few doses to allay pain. And the mar
cotic does not remove the trouble at all; it
simply deadens the nerve centers and lulls
the sufferer with false seductive glow of
temporary comfort and fills his excited brain
with Authorizations AS soon as the effects
wear off, the patient is in a worse condition
than before and again seeks relief in the
drug. Even if he has some conjunction in
doing so,-perhaps through the warning of
friend he reasons that the doctor knows
his business and would not prescribe any
thing which was not perfectly all right.
When the second dose wears off, he takes
another and then another, and soon the aw-
full drug has the helpless victim enmeshed
in its coils, more deadly than those of SER
pent He is doomed to life of indescribable
torture, to an existence almost worse than
the torments of hell itself, in which he is
owned, spirit, soul and body by the devil
all, through the prescription of doctor who
lives off this ghoulish practice, doing out
poisons which weaken and undermine the
constitutions of his patients who in their
credulity and blind confidence turn to him
posing as an angel of mercy and a reliever
of the distressed, when everyone knows, who
has carefully investigated, that the products
of the apothecary have damned untold null
tltudes and sent countless thousands of the
innocent and unwary into immortality.
In fact, any man engaged in the medical
profession, any clerk standing behind the
counters of a drug store, any father or
mother, boy or girl, entering the portals OF
these dispensaries of hell-broth is playing
with peril which may curse them through
life and damn them through all eternity.
Hundreds of doctors and druggists have
become victims of their own wares. HUI
mainly would be infinitely better off if there
was not a drug store in existence. People
would be far more healthy; there would
be less sickness and the death rate would be
much lower
The City of Zion is an object lesson in
this respect, and we would be glad to COM
pare its statistics, any day, with those of
other cities
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-12
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGE
MENT. CIRCULATION, ETC, REQUIRED BY
THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF
AUGUST "a, 1912.

Of "The Theocrat" published Weekly at Zion,
Illinois for April 1st 1919
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF LAKE. IS.
Before Notary Public in and for the State
and county aforesaid, personally appeared Theo-
dore Forby, who having been duly sworn accord
business Manager Of "The Theocrat" and that
the following is, to the best of his knowledge
management etc, of the aforesaid publication
for the date shown in the above caption, required
by the Act of August "a. 1912, embodied in sec
ton 443, Postal Laws and Regulations to-wit:
l. That the names and addresses of the pub
Usher and Editor, Wilbur Glenn Ie Voliva, Zion,
Illinois,. Business Manager, Theodore Forby,
Zion, T Hino tne owner IS Wilbur Glenn Volva'
8. That the known bondholders, mortgages.
| per cent or more of total amount of bonds,
mortgages, or other securities are: None.
ing the names of the owners, stockholders, and
security holders, if any, contain not only the
appear upon the books of the company but also,
in cases where the stakeholder security hold
er appears upon the books of the company as
trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the
name of the person corporation for whom such
trustee is acting is given" also that the said two
paragraphs contain statements embracing aff-
ants full knowledge and belief to the cir
cumstances and conditions under which stock
holders and security holders who do not appear
uDon the books of the company as trustees, hold
stock and securities in capacity other than
that of bona fde owner; and this, aff1ant has
association. or corporation has any interest
direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds or
other securities than so stated by him.
5. That the average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold distributed,
ers during the six months preceding the date
THEODORE FORBY.
Business Manager.
Sworn TO and subscribed before me this 31st
day of March, 1913
(SeaD CMy commission expires May 9Th. 1870
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-12
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, that the City Clerk of
the City of Zion is ready TO receive sealed bids
for the collection, removal and disposal of all
night soil, garbage. junk: or other refuse. de-
trimental the health of the City. The party
or parties to whom this contract is let. must
furnish their own team wagons stoves and other
proper equipment to out their contract
without any expense whatever to the City of
Zion.
Said sealed bids to be in the hands of the City
Clerk on before Saturday, May 3, 1919
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-12
IMPORTANT NOTICE

We want to call your particular attention to
the following in blowing lots.
The sidewalks must not be driven over, and
the dirt must not be turned up on the sidewalks
and left there
Where there is sidewalk. the sidewalk space
must be left untouched for the use of pedes-
TRANS.
In some parts of the city, we find they are
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-12


SIS Lake County.
County of Lake,
In the Matter of the Final }
Settlement of the Estate of } No -
Adde B. Himrod, Deceased. }
To Mrs. Bonita H. Mirick, Dr. Margaret c.
Himrod Barney, T. B. Himrod Joseph B. Himrod,
Mrs. Grace H. Evans, Bonita Lorbeer Stephens,
Elizabeth Lorbeer, Olney Wayne Lorbeer and
Norma Lorbeer, if living, and if not, to the un-
known heirs heirs at law, if any, Of Addie B.
Himrod, deceased whose names, and addresses,
are unknown and cannot upon due and diligent
search and inquiry be ascertaned, heirs at law
of said decedent, and to all creditors of said
estate.
TAKE NOTICE, That on the II day of May,
A. D. 1919, at Ten o'clock A. M, or soon there
after the matter can be heard, the under
signed will present to the County Court in
the Court House, in Waukegan, said County
and State. his final report and account as Ad-
ministrator of said Estate, and ask the same
be approved; that the said estate be declared
settled. and the undersigned discharged from
his said office, at which time and place you are
notified to be present, if you desire.
Dated April Z, A. D. 1913.
WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA
Administr atOr.
THEODORE FORBY
Attorney for Administrator.
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into the street. We want all the ground used
that be, but it must be remembered that
space for sidewalks and streets must be left
open.
Do not permit your chickens to run at large,
or you will be apt to get into trouble, there
is ordinance prohibiting it.
Let each one be careful about these matters
and keep things in good order.
w. HURD CLENDINEN,
Mayor.