Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1906 — SETTLEMENT IN ZION CITY [ARTICLE]

SETTLEMENT IN ZION CITY

Industries Are To Be Turned Over to Practical Men To Be Managed. ,

Chtcngo, Nov. 27. —Announcement Is made that John Alexander Dowie, Wilbur Glen Voliva and the other leaders of Zion are prepared to assign all their interests in the industrial affairs of the church" to the city’s creditors. Henceforth Zion’s factories will be administered by a board of directors consisting of seven members, headed by Receiver John C. Hately. Its constitution will include three capitalists who are not followers of Dowie’s faith, and tills, it Is bqlieved, will insure the disinterested management of its affairs In accordance with business methods. The indebtedness of Zion City amounts, It is sakl, approximately to $i’,.000.000 distributed among Zionists throughout the world, owners of the land on which Zion City is built and smaller Individual holders of Zion paper.