The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-07
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 Imple-
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
elements 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 corporations; 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
nf
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 lis 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 It's
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 he at least one veal
. before the termination of the char
ter, and in case it is determined te
terminate such corporation, ther
: publication of such termination
shall be made in newspaper Of
general circulation printed il
Shreveport, Louisiana, for at leas
three weeks Immediately after thu
declaration to terminate such cor
) poration, and like notice OF sucf
, termination shall also be publishes
in newspaper of general circula
ton in the City of Baton Rouge
Louisiana, which publication shall
contain a general statement OF tn
charter of such incorporation.
SIXTH.
That such incorporation is organ
lied and charter required for a Pc
riod of fifty years.
Il SEVENTH.
The seal of said company shal
consist of the letters and word
"O-K Champion Implement Com
: pany," written on the outer circl
) Of said seal, in the center OF whic
shall be the word seal"
To which articles of incorporate
we the following persons have here
, unto subscribed our names and al
fixed our seals this fifteenth (15th
day of April in the year OF our Lor
one thousand nine hundred an
20 twelve.
81 MAX II. DAENITZ.
FRANK LEO HOESS.
4 HERMAN KNOERZER