The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-09
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF the OK Champion Implement
Company.

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 ImpIe-
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
ufacturlng, 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 or 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 fly 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 andiI
managers of said Incorporation shall
be by the stockholders thereof; the
first election of officers to be held l.
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 vote; said vote may be
cast either by the holder of stock I
in person or by proxy to any other 3
stakeholder of said company.
FIFTH.
Said company shall be liquidatcdt
and ended at the termination of its
existence of fifty years, or it may I.
be continued for new period by a
vote of the stockholders, which vote d
CT the stockholders, for such con- q
shall he at least one year .
before the termination of the char Z
,er, and in case it is determined to
terminate such corporation, thenl
publication of such termination -
shall be made in newspaper of q
general circulation printed in
Louisiana, for at least .
.hree weeks Immediately after the .
declaration to terminate such cor =
and a like notice of such :
termination shall also be published .
n a newspaper of general circula-
ion in the City of Baton Rouge, :
louisiana, which publication shall a.
contain general statement of the :,
'harter of such incorporation.
SIXTH. =
That such incorporation is organ !
zed and charter required for pc. .,
iod of fifty years.
SEVENTH.
The seal of said company shall :.
onsist of the letters and words u
OK Champion Implement Com ~
,any," written on the outer circle al
said seal, in the center of which y
hall be the word seal" d
To which articles of incorporation Ics
re the following persons have here OF
INTO subscribed our names and af- is
ixed our seals this fifteenth (f5th) ";
ay of April in the year of our Lord et
ne thousand nine hundred and L
Nelye. IL
MAX TT. DAENITZ. tic
FRANK LEO HOESS.
HERMAN KNOERZER
Attest: =
CAL n HICKS r