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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13
CHARTER
OF THE NELSON COM
PANY.

State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
Before me, A. B. Freyer, notary pub
lie in and for the Parish of Caddo and
State of Louisiana, duly qualified. COM
missioned and sworn, and in presence
of the witnesses hereinafter named and
undersigned, came and appeared the
several persons whose names are here
unto subscribed, who declared that.
availing themselves of the provisions Of
the law of this State relative to the or
ganization of corporations. they have
covenanted and agreed, and by these
presents covenant and agree and bind
themselves and those who may hereafter
become associated with them, to form
and constitute a body polite in law for
the objects and purposes and under the
articles and stipulations following, to-
wit:
ARTICLE l.
The name and style of this corpora
ton shall be the TAYLOR-NE1LSON
COMPANY, and under its said name it
shall have power and authority to con-
tract, to sue and be sued; to make and
use corporate seal and the same to al
ter or break at pleasure; to hold, receive,
purchase, ALLEVIATE, convey, sell, pledge,
mortgage, hypothecate or lease property,
real, personal or mixed; to name and
appoint such officers, directors, agents
and employees as the interest and con-
venience of the said corporation may re-
o,,ire: to make and establish bylaws
rules and regulations for the proper
management of its affairs a. may be
deemed necessary and proper, and the
same to alter or change at pleasure; and
generally to do all other acts and thing.
necessary and proper to carry out the
objects and purposes of said corporation
This corporation, unless sooner dis
solved as hereinafter provided for, shall
exist and continue for 4 period o
ninety nine (oo) years from and afte,
the date hereof.
il All citations and other legal process
shall be served upon the president, y il
Ibis absence upon the secretary-treasure
at the domicile of the company. whiel
shall be and is hereby declared to b i,
the City of Shreveport, Caddo Parish
Louisiana.
ARTICLE II.
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The objssts aad purposes for whiel
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13
BIDS INVITED.

Bids are hereby invited for building
pile bridge over Horseshoe bayou at
Self place in Ward One, Caddo Parish
Louisiana, 137 feet long and 3 feet
higher than present bridge Also bids
for new flooring on steel bridge across
DooIey bayou at Section Six plantation
10 feet, in Ward One Also bids for
bridge over Eubanks bayou between
Waskom and Greenwood in Ward Five
Of Caddo parish. bids for either bent or
bile bridge. Bridges to be b',ilt accord
ing to specifications and satisfactory
bond required. Bids to BE- opened at
next meeting Of the jury. the second
Thursday in May 1900. the jury reserv-
ing right TO reject any and ali BIDS
JULES DREYFUSS, Pres.
A 7. DURINGER, Clerk.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13

directors shall be filled by the remain
ing directors. The directors shall be
elected by the stockholders, each share
of stock to be entitled to one vote, to be
cast by its owner in person or by proxy,
and the majority of votes shall elect.
The board of directors shall make all
such rules and regulations for the man
agement of the business as they shall
deem necessary and expedient.
ARTICLE vi.
Notice of all stockholders meetings
shall either be published ten days prior
thereto in one of the newspapers of the
City of Shreveport, or such notice
mailed by the secretary ten days before
such meeting to each member of the
company to the address as shown by
the corporations books. The charter of
this corporation may be modified or
amended, or said corporation dissolved,
with the consent of the majority of the
amount of capital stock represented at
meeting of the stockholders convened
for that purpose. Whenever this cor
poration is dissolved, by limitation or
o:rc, wise, it shall be liquidated by two
commissioners elected by the stockhold-
ers. who shall have full power and au-
thcr;ty to wind up its affairs, settle its
liabilities and distribute the remaining
prt tecds among the creditors and sto"k-
holders.
ARTICLE VII.
No stakeholder shall ever be liable
for the contracts or faults of this cor
poration in any further sum than the
unpaid balance due to the company on
shares of stock subscribed for, nor shall
any mere informally. in organization
have the effect of rendering this charter
null, or exposing a stakeholder to any
liability beyond the amount of his stock
due by him as aforesaid. All sales OF
transfers of stock to be binding on the
company must first be made on its
books.
ARTICLE VIII.
No stakeholder shall have the right
to sell his stock to any person except
another stockholder without first offer
ing it to the other stockholders at its
book value by placing it in the hands
of the company for thirty days, with ar
option to the company for thirty days
Or any stakeholder to purchase it at that
price
Done and passed in my Office in Cad
do Parish. louisiana. in the presence OF
lW. W. Vaughan and H. A. Davis
competent witnesses, on this the 23rd
day of March 1909.
CHARLES r. BALL.
MRS. NJ. B. HURST.
w. R. LOGAN.
GEO. A. SAUER.
J. S. WELSH.
| Attest:
H. A. DAVIS.
! ". w. VAUGHAN.
J. A. TH1GPEN,
Notary Public
Endorsed: Filed March a, 1909.
| A. S. HARDIN,
Deputy Clerk
A true copy.
A. S. HARDIN,
March IS. Deputy Clerk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13
CHARTER
OF THE CHARLES r. BALL LUM-
Der COMPANY.

State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
Before me, the undersigned authority,
personally came and appeared Charles
R. Ball, Mrs. NJ. B. Hurst, widow,
J. S. Welsh, George A. Sauer and w.
R. Logan, who declared to me that
they do hereby organize and form
corporation, under the laws of the State
of Louisiana, for the objects and pur-
poses and under the stipulations as
herein set out, tO-wit:
ARTICLE l.
The name of this corporation shall be
CHARLES r. BALL LUMBER CON-
PANY, under which said corporation
shall have succession for a period OF
fifty years, unless sooner dissolved as
hereinafter provided. Said corporation
shall have and enjoy all of the rights
and powers granted to corporations OF
its kind under the law.
ARTICLE II.
The donnicile of said corporation shall
be in the City of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, Louisiana, and citation and
other legal process shall be served on
its president, or in his absence on any
officer Of the company at its Office.
ARTICLE III.
The purposes for which this corpora
ton is formed and the nature of the
business to be carried on by it are
hereby declared to be the purchase and
sale of lumber and all kinds of building
and construction material, and also,
should the board of directors see proper.
the manufacture of lumber and all kinds
of building material, and in order to
carry out such purposes, the purchase
and operation of saw mills, planning
mills and the building and operation OF
tram roads, railroads, telegraph and
Telephone lines, with the power to do
such other things as may be Necessary
to carry on such business, including the
conducting Of a general merchandise
and supply business in connection with
the operation of the Saw mill business.
ARTICLE w.
The capital stock of this corporation
lis hereby fixed at the sum of fifty
thousand ($soooo) dollars, divided into
five hundred shares of the par value Of
lone hundred ($1oo) dollars each, thu
Incorporation to begin business wher
Thirty thousand dollars of the capita
stock is subscribed and paid in. salt
fstock to be paid for. in cash or in prop
erty or service of its equivalent in sucl
manner as the board of directors ma.
determine.
!. ARTICLE V.
! The corporate powers of this cor
. poration shall be vested in board 0
directors to be composed of tire
stockholders, which board shall be elect
, led annually on the first Monday il
April. The directors shall elect the OF
, ficers, which shall consist Of presiden
} vice president, secretary-treasurer. an
|, 1.-THE first board shall consist of Charlie
FIR. Ball. who shall be president; VIM
elR. Logan, who shall be vice presiden
: and J. S. Welsh, who shall be secrt
altary-treasufer. all of whom shall sery
} until the first Monday in April I0l'
flor until their successors are elected
J lvaaneiss occurring = the boazd 4
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13

under my hand and seal OF Office this
the 18th day of March 1909.
AT. HAYNES.
Deputy Clerk and ex-Officio Deputy Re-
corder. 3-IS-rooo.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13
w. +. i A 1 LIN.
C.. l.. NELSON.
J. H. JORDAN.
HERMAN LOEB.
S. ]. HARTMAN.
E. H. RANDOLPH.
r. A. GRAY.
R. r. EMERY
r. H. GRAY.
S. S. HUNTER.
Attest:
w. H. WISE.
S. O. WILLIAMS. !

Attest: ,
w. H. WISE.
S. o. WILLIAMS. !
A. B. FREYER,
Notary Public Caddo Parish Louisiana.
State of Louisiana, Parish Of Caddo:
After examining the above and forego-
ing act of incorporation, and finding
nothing therein contrary to law, l here
by approve the same. Done and signed
officially on this the 25th day of Febru-
ary 1000. J. NJ. FOSTER,
DISTRICT Attorney First Judicial District
Court of Louisiana.
(Endorsed) Filed and recorded Feb
ruary 27. 1902 A. F. HAYNES,
Deputy Clerk.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo /:
| hereby certify that the above and fore
going is a true and correct copy OF the
original act, as the same now appears on
file and of record in my Office. Given
under my hand and seal of office on this
the 27th day Of February 1909.
A. F. HAYNES.
Deputy Clerk and ex-Oficio Deputy Re-
corder. 1-26
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13

When you are looking for the good
kind of stationery, remember that we
are still at s17 Edwards street and will
print that kind for you.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.

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the New York Newspapss Feature Con-
pany, ro7 w. .Twenty-fftA Street, New
York City. Forward orders - then.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13

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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13

utes of the stockholders meeting, as
shown by the original minutes of said
meeting recorded in the minute book.
LOUIS c. BULKLEY,
L. N. BRUEGGERHOFF,
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 18TH day, of March A. D. 1909.
S. J. ZE1GLER,
Notary Public.
State of Louisiana, Parish Of Caddo
Ii, J. NJ. Foster, district attorney Of the
First Judicial District Court Of Louis
lana. do hereby certify that have ex-
,m;ned the above and foregoing instru-
ment to the articles of incorporation OF
the State Fair of Louisiana, and finding
nothing therein contrary to law l hereby
| approve the same. This 18th day Of
March A. d. 1899.
J. NJ. FOSTER,
District Attorney First Judicial Die
trict Of Louisiana
| Endorsed: Filed and recorded Marcel
10, 1909. A. f. HAYNES,
Deputy Clerk aud ex-O&eio Deputy Re-
| corder.
State of Louisiana, Parish Of Caddo
hereby certify that the above and fore
going 10 4 true and correct copy Of tn
|ogiginal aet, - the ssuse now appaas
On lie and Of reaorl n ny o1kss. Qrsl
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13

This corporation shall have and enjoy
al Of the powers and authority now Or
,,h;ch NAV hereafter be conferred On
generations of like character BY the
i.~. of the State of Louisiana. and no
t.tockhodler shall ever be held liable Of
r..rons;ble for the contracts OF faults
thereof in any further sum than the m
mid balance due On the shares oNned
8 him. nor shall any mere informally
:, n "a, nation have ~ s6eek q
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18
BAPTISTS, TAKE NOTICE!
Editor JefferSOnian.

Dear Sir and Brother: The publ
cation of my letter to you in your
weekly has brought on a lot Of de-
lightful trouble in my workshop.
Letters are coming to me asking
about the General Association which
L mentioned as meeting here at Mag
nolia, Ark, December 1918, prox.,
desiring information, etc.
If you will kindly allow me space
to do so, will explain as briefly as
possible to your numerous Baptist
readers, about the Association.
Far over half the Baptist denomi-
nation have never supported the Con-
vention-board system of foreign
mission work, whose extra-scriptural
methods you have criticised and ex-
posed. Over ten thousand churches
in the South do not contribute to it
in any way
They refuse for two primary rea-
sons: First, the boards have estab-
lished a complete Episcopal system
rch organization and govern
ment on mission fields, the superin-
tendents appointed by the boards ex-
ercising all the functions of ruling
bishops over the native churches and
pastors, with the result that the
churches on mission fields are nei-
Their independent nor self-supporting,
but remain burden to the home
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

books, free board, and free secular
education to the black children of
Africa, the brown people of India,
and the yellow people of China.
For nearly eighteen hundred and
fifty years missionary work was done
after the example set us by those who
worked and talked with Christ, and
who had the best means of knowing
what He meant when He said, go
We and preach"
One of the most serious objec-
tons to the present plan is. that we
offer to the destitute people in hea-
thendom such powerful inducements
to call themselves Christians. that
we have no adequate way of testing
their sincerity. We offer them so
much in the way of material bene-
fits, as hereinbefore stated, that the
temptation is simply irresistible to
the poorer classes of foreign coun-
tries
have tried to do good. | have
tried to expose and to exterminate
what was evil, both in Church and
State. l am doing work on the two
JeffersOnians which is of home mis-
sion character. For this, l get moth
ing whatever, except the satisfaction
of educating the people and influ-
encing public opinion in the right
way. Such reform papers as mine
never pay anything in the way of
clear profits in money. During the
time that | have been engaged in
this editorial work-fve years.
could have made anywhere from $50
600 to $1,O00,00O practising law and
lecturing I think your lady friend
will readily agree that this is fairly
good proof that | am in earnest in
trying to get the missionaries to do
for our own people, in America, for
the destitute widows, and men. too,
for that matter-Of our own country.
what they are so eagerly doing for
tie destitute foreigners.
Very truly yours,
THOS. E. WATSON.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18

al n, DSC0u1DSI Id 10 10. ANY BAD
fist church can send messengers, or
they may cooperate in the work by
letter only. 1t means that the church
es are taking charge of their own
business, harmonizing their work
with their principles and the Scrip
lures; throwing out the useless
$4,000 middle man and the parasites
which feed and fatten on mission
funds; cutting out subsidy and every
thing save just what the Lord COM
manded.
And l am sending this information
to you through The Jeffersonian be-
cause can not get it to you through
your religious CD UNCONVENTIONAL
organs
We have several splendid papers.
through which we are giving infor-
nation and carrying forward orr
campaign Of education and enamel
patton.
The writer publishes monthly
magazine, plain Truth" thirty-two
pages. The November issue now
just out, contains an expose of Con-
Ventlon Episcopacy, proven by the
official record.
The Baptist Flag, Fulton, KY. is
sixteen-page weekly of large cir
culation and ably edited.
The Arkansas Baptist, Little Rock,
Ark, very fine sixteen-page week
ly, is making things hum for God
and truth.
The Baptist Echo, Jacksonville,
Texas, is another excellent weekly.
DR.. J. H. Milburn, Union City.
Tenn, has lately issued a book ex-
posing the unscriptural system and
graft of the whole Convention sys-
TEN.
State associations have been form
ed in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas.
Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi
IN harmony with the General Associ-
alton.
we shall be glad to have the
churches send messengers to this
meeting, also to welcome any Bap-
list brother as a visitor who wishes
to see the work of missions placed
on scriptural basis.
Magnolia is in South Arkansas.
Columbia county, on the La. & N. w.
Railway. Come either via Queen &
Crescent (Southern Railway through
train from Atlanta, Ca, via Vicks-
burg to Gibbsland, La, and there
take La. & N. w. to Magnolia. fifty
three miles; or come via Memphis.
Tenn, and there take the Cotton
Belt to Mcneil, Ark, and then La.
4 N. w., six miles to Magnolia.
[ thank God and take courage
since you have made highway for
truth to reach the people. I have
prayed and longed for the time!
Twelve years ago I learned the truth
and tried to get it before the Demon
nation. The story of the struggle
through the long twelve years would
make volumes. | see light ahead!
Cod ic dplivororI ho1;oxn n.1-:
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18
GOT SNUBBED ABOUT FOREIGN
MISSIONS.

out | read your article in a recent
issue of The Jeffersonian, and it set
me a-thinking. Most of us are like
sheep, just follow regardless Of right
or reason. At recent meeting of
the Woman's Missionary Society, our
president read an article censuring
You and all such writer's, and giving
one the opinion that you were against
almost any good at all. I interrupted
her and said. 81 read that article,
and | don't think Mr.. Watson is OPP
posed to missions, Or any good work,
but simply points out some of our
errors" Her Serene Highness look
ed at me with contempt and remark
ed, sit couldn't have been anything
else," and resumed her article.
| wrote her note afterwards Il
had to leave before the meeting clos
ed, and told her that there was no
need to snub me so mercilessly, be-
cause I knew you to be too smart
man to write things without reason
ed Opinions venerable properties,
and that those showing the most de-
crepitude require the gentlest hand
ling, etc. Now she says she will
apologize, and that possibly she
should have taken time to have dis
cussed your article, ETC., ETC. She
mad not read the article, could not
have discussed it if she had read it.
! did not want it discussed there,
do not want an apology. I just feel
the injustice of reading and accept
opinions and being snubbed for try
ing to defend the opinions.
Do l make myself plain? Now, if
you will just write a few lines tell
ing me where you are at, will great
ly appreciate them. Do you believe
in missions. Do you believe in doing
good? Are you trying to break
down OF build up? Anything else
you may say to enlighten us as to
your position will be appreciated 1t
is so hard to say just what I would.
| am so in the habit of making state
ments to get another's opinions, and
Outlines they are taken as assertions.
| am not angry, not at all hurt, but
| just don't like to be beaten. A
prompt reply will be appreciated
Most respectfully,
MRS. P. N. LOTT.
P, S.-My husband is an admirer
Of your writings, and l am the moth
er of Mrs Julian S. Harris, of Dear
ing, Ga, in whose home I often have
read your Magazine.
Johnston, S. G.
Answer.
My Dear Mrs. Lott:-Your favor
received. 1t gives me great pleasure
to state again what I have repeated
ly said in my weekly paper and
monthly magazine, to wit: | am
heartily in favor of Foreign Missions
of the Pauline sort. In other words,
believe that we ought to preach the
Gospel, just as Christ commanded;
but | do not believe that Christ ever
intended for us to leave hungry
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18


dependence and congregational
church government.
Second, Southern Baptists are pay
ing out annually about $4,000 of
their mission funds to support boards
alone. A missionary gets from ten
dollars and up on the home field to
$500 to $500 on the foreign field
but corresponding secretary gets
$4,000 to $500, and the boards
have the power to make as many
secretaries as they like, and they
are making them. In other words,
there is what a writer on political
economy would call graft" Besides
these reasons there are many others,
one of which is "money-basis repre-
sentation" in the Convention, so the
churches can not reach nor correct
these abuses. Efforts have been
made, both in and out of the Con-
vention, to reform these abuses with
out success.
Then there is the subsidy sys-
tenn of hiring natives to preach,
building houses, colleges, schools,
hospitals, dispensaries, and taxing
the churches with a whole system of
education, civilization and benevo-
lence, when the command of Christ
makes it our duty to simply preach
the gospel to all the world, and moth
ing more.
For these reasons the churches
which refuse to support such an un-
scriptural system, together with
many which formerly did support it,
have formed a General Association,
in which the organization is harmo-
nlzed with Baptist principles of
church independence, and the work
with the command of Christ to preach
the gospel and nothing more. No
body but messengers from the
churches enters this association, and
instead of a board with Episcopal
powers, it has simple finance COM
mlttee which receives and forwards
funds for the support of missionaries
who do nothing but preach the Cos
pei, organize churches and leave them
free and independent, as did Paul
and Barnabas. They are not run
ming schools, kindergartens, teach
ing dentistry and farming, nor try
ing to make converts by PLAYING
Poor Kitty and dispensing castor
OIL"
This Association embraces churches
in eight States now, with more COM
ing, and is supporting Biblical mis-
sionaries in Syria, Persia, Mexico,
China and Cuba. Not an officer in
it receives any salary save the treas
urer, who is paid for bookkeeping.
and only $500 per month.
1t was formed four years ago at
Texarkana, Texas. We can not get
the facts about it before Baptists in
the Convention papers, not even for
advertising rates. The Convention
leaders and managers are fighting it
with might and main. A Populist
could get his evidence and arguments
IN Democratic or Renublican nanars