The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-11-08
Secretary of State Gives List of
Local Corporations Failing
to Observe Law
LONG LIST TO BE CUT OFF
Leading Plants in the City Have Com
piled With the Law and Delin-
Guents Are Largely Defunct
Organizations of all Kinds

Secretary of State Walter T..
Houser has sent out list Of the char
tered companies in Kenosha which
have failed to comply with sections S
and of Chapter 507 of the Laws of
1905, which demand that the mana,
gers of all Incorporated companies
send to the state statistics of their
plants. The law provides that if
these statistics are not sent to the
secretary of state by the first day of
January, the state will have the rig hit
to revoke the powers granted to the
company as state organization. 1t
is apparent that there will be a great
cleaning up Of the incorporated com
pan1es in Kenosha, and that many of
the companies which have been on the
books of the state as Kenosha COM
panies will be consigned to oblivion.
Many of the leading plants in the city
have complied with the orders of the
state in regard to the return to the
secretary of the statistics, but the
smaller companies have evidently
paid little or no attention to the
blanks sent to them many weeks age.
These companies will have not only
to furnish the information sought by
the state, but they must also pay the
fee for advertising their delinquency.
The report is interesting in that it
shows some of the history of compan-
les incorporated in the city and shows
that many of them have failed.
Among the list of companies named
as del1nquents appear Chicago Bed |
ding Co., American Bedding Co., |
Wisconsin Silver Mining Co., Wis
consin Paint Co., Wisconsin Inter
Lakes Railway Co., University |
School, Western Lumber Co., Rand |
Tuning Co., American Steel Ball Co.
Park City Electric Railway Co., Ke /
nosha Baseball Association, and !
half hundred other com panies, many
OF which have long since passed out
of existence.
The list of delinquent companies in |
Kenosha is ninety-three in number. |
and this fact shows that the city has
been great place for incorporating |
companies. At the present time there |
are thirty-eight incorporated compan-
les actually doing business in the
city, and the remainder of those men
toned in the report are supposed to
have fallen by the wayside. The list j
includes every line of business. /
Schools, lumber companies, societies
for charitable purposes and |
mercantile firms. It is evident from
the report that many companies have
been incorporated under the state law
as from Kenosha which never did any
business in the city.
A lot of these companies, however,
fall under the law and if they are do
ing business in other states they are
liable to find themselves without
charter if the law is not lived upito.
The law is not favorite with the
and it is claimed that
he information secured through it is
IF little value to the people of the
state. 1t is probab1 that some steps
will be taken at the next session of
he legislature either to repeal the
aw or to make such notifications in ,
t as to make it of greater value, both
o the state and to the incorporated ,,
!
The number of companies falling
% comply with the law is no larger i'll
xenosha than in other cities.