The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-30
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.
or the Ok Champion Implement
Company.

|
| Know all men by these presents,
that we, Max H. Daenitz, Frank l..
Hoess and Herman Knoerzer, do
hereby subscribe to the incOrpOra-
ton hereinafter named.
FIRST.
! The name of the incorporation
shall be the OK Champion lmple-
ment Company. The domicile OF
which shall be at Shreveport, Louis
lana.
SECOND.
The said incorporation is to be
| organized for the purpose OF con
Quoting the general business of man
ufacturing, buying and selling farm
and agricultural machinery and i'm
plements and all other kinds of ma
chinery and implements, and for the
purpose of buying and receiving
parts of machinery and implements
of all natures and kinds and assem-
bling the same, to be sold in the gen.
eral business of the corporation; to
buy and hold real estate in and upon
which said company is to OF may
transact their business, and to sell
and convey any such real estate as
may in the judgment of the officers
and directors of such association
seem prudent so to do; and the said
company does hereby appoint and
designate Frank L. HoesS of ShreVe-
port, Louisiana, as secretary and the
person on whom service and citation
may be served.
THIRD.
The capital stock of said associa-
ton shall be twenty-five thousand
dollars, divided into two hundred
and fifty shares of the par vaue OF
one hundred dollars each. Said stock
to be fully paid in cash upon its in
corporation.
FOURTH.
The election of directors and
managers of said incorporation shall
be by the stockholders thereof; the
first election of officers to be held
April IS, 1912, and the annual cleo
ton of directors shall be held on
the third Monday of January 1913,
and on the third Monday of January
of each and every years thereafter.
Said directors shall appoint such
officers as they may deem neces-
Sary to carry On the business of said
company. Each share of stock shall
constitute a vote; said vote may be
cast either by the holder of stock
in person or by proxy to any other
stakeholder of said company.
FIFTH.
Said company shall be liquidated
and ended at the termination of its
existence of fifty years, or it.may
be continued for new period by a
vote of the stockholders, which vote
of the stockholders, for such con-
| tinuance, shall be at least one year
before the termination of the char
ter, and in case it is determined to
terminate such corporation, then
publication of such termination
shall be made in newspaper of
general circulation printed in
Shreveport, Louisiana, for at least
three weeks Immediately after the
declaration to terminate such cor
poration, and like notice of such
Termination shall also be published
in newspaper of general circula-
ton in the City of Baton Rouge,
! Louisiana, which publication shall
contain a general statement of the
| charter of such incorporation.
SIXTH.
That such incorporation is organ
lied and charter required for a pc
riod of fifty years.
SEVENTH.
The seal of said company shall
consist of the letters and words
"O-K Champion Implement Com
| pany," written on the outer circle
Of said seal, in the center of which
| shall be the word seal"
To which articles of incorporation
we the following persons have here
unto subscribed our names and af-
fixed our seals this fifteenth (i5th)
day of April in the year Of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and
Twelve.
MAX H. DAENITZ.
FRANK LEO HOESS.-
HERMAN KNOEZER.
Attest:
CAL . HICKS.
l. P. ALEXANDER.
| State of Louisiana, Parish of Cad