The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-12-30


held on the last Saturday of Deem
Der of each year, until the first cleo
ton which shall be held on the last
Saturday of December the following
persons shall be directors.
E. ]. Horney... Leon
Frank A. CARRIER. ....... Leon
G. A. Smallwood. Leon
sam Gassett. Leon
e. B. McClelland. ........ Leon
G. p. Beavers. ............. Leon
J. *. Campbell. -. -. Leon
John Elliott. Leon
]. W. Osborn -. ......... Leon
w. H. Hazlet. -. .......... Leon
o. H. Reynolds. -. -. Decatur
and the following shall be officers,
President. ..... Frank CARRIER
Vice-president. :. William Hazlet
Secretary. ........ e. j. Horney
Treasurer. Sam Gassett
All officers of this Corporation
shall hold Office for the term of one
year or until their successors are
elected and have qualified. Every
director shall be stakeholder and If
arg director shall part with his hold
ings in this Corporation he shall at
once cease to be director, a board
of directors may fill vacancies oc-
curing in it's membership between
annual elections, by the appointment
of qualified persons to hold office for
the remainder of the term. Special
meetings of the stockholders may be
called at any time by the President,
upon giving ten days notice in person
or in writing to the stockholders,
and shall be called by him at any
time upon request of stockholders,
representing one half of the stock,
and in case of his neglect or refusal
to call meeting the parties owning
stock to the amount of one half the
shares may join in a call of the
stockholders, which meeting shall be
the same as though called by the
President At all meetings of the
stockholders, each stakeholder shall
be entitled to one vote for each share
of stock held by him.
(Article 8.)
That Article Eight of the Articles
of incorporation, be amended SO as
to read as follows, the highest
amount of Indebtedness to which
this Corporation is at any time to
subject itself shall not exceed two
per cent of it's capital stock, after
the present Indebtedness is paid off,
and the directors shall be placed un-
der bonds which will make them
liable for all excess.
| The President and Secretary Of the
Company were duly authorized and
directed to sign, acknowledge, re-
cord, publish and do all things which
are by law required, to execute, COM
plete and carry into effect the above
amendment to the articles of incor-
poration of said company.
We, H. l.. Pease, president, and
F. M. Gittinger, chairman and Sec
rotary of said meeting do hereby GER
tify the above to be true and cor
rect statement of the proceedings of
the stockholders at the above named
meeting.
H. L. Pease, Chairman.
| r. M. zGittinger, Secretary.
In conformity with the above. reso-
luton tweS. the President and Secfe-
tary of said corporation, have exc
cuted this instrument, and do here
by sign and acknowledge the same,
for and in behalf of the said corpor-
alton, this Goth day of October, A..
D. 1909.
H. L. Pease, President.
F. M. Gittinger, Secretary.
State of Iowa,
County OF, Decatur, SIS.
Be it remembered, that on this
goth day of October, A. D. 1909,
before me, notary public in and for
said county and state, personally ap-
peared H. l.. Pease and F. M. Git
finger, each being to me personally
known, who being by me duly sworn
did say, that they are the President
and Secretary respectively of the De-
catur County Mutual Telephone Co.,
and that said instrument was signed
and sealed in behalf of said corpor-
alton by authority of its stockholders,
land that they acknowledged said in
strumenI to be the voluntary act and
deed of said corporation, by them
voluntarily executed.
| Carl Monroe,
| Notary Public.