Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1915 — VOLIVA OBJECTS TO USE OF VACCINE [ARTICLE]

VOLIVA OBJECTS TO USE OF VACCINE

Gets Into Trouble With West Hammond Authorities By Circulating Literature There. Voliva, who succeeded Dowie at Zion City, has been in the limelight in West Hammond for the past few days. An epidemic of smallpox there caused a general vaccination. Voliva put in an appearance with literature declaring the vaccine used against smallpox as filthy and containing more trouble than the disease itself. A picture in the literature was of a girl alleged to have died from vaccine serum. Other pictures of cows hnd rattlesnakes tried to frighten people against vaccination. Voliva indulged in some harsh terms against the medical men. Tuesday elders in his church again entered West Hammond to pass circulars and the chief of police drove them out of town, compelling them to cross the line into Indiana. A mob assailed the Zionites and threatened to do them bodily harm if they did not cease the distribution of the literature. They were told that if they reappeared today they would get all that was coming to them.