Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29
Legal Notices.


Legal Notices.
Notice Of incorporation.
Notice is hereby given, that there has
been Incorporated. ne Ottumwa GAs
Company. with principal place OF bust.
ness { Ottumwa, Wapello county, Iowa
The corporation shall have all the
powers conferred on corporationoss for
Iowa, together with all the powers
necessary and incidental to the convcn'
transaction Of its business INCLUDE
ing the power:
(a) To borrow money. f.
(b) To Issue it's negotiable notes.
bonds or other evidences of indebted
ness, and to secure the repayment OF
the same by liens upon all or any por-
ton Of it's property. real or personal.
by way of mortgage or otherwise.
Co To own, lease, buy and sell, en-
cumber and otherwise dispose OF prop
erty, real, personal and mixed. inciud-
ing the stocks and bonds Of other cor
porations.
The general nature OF tho business TO
be transacted is:
fa) To produce or In any manner ac-
quire, and to sell and dispose OF, and
distribute, artificial gas. and Its by
products and residual products. and to
construct or in any manner acquire, to
own, hold and operate. and to sell. ex-
Change, lease and cucumber. or In any
manner dispose OF works, buildings,
pipe lines. mains, machinery, apparatus,
appliances, facilities, rights. privileges.
franchises, ordinances and IN such real
and personal property as be neces-
sary. useful or convenient " the pro-
duction, acquisition, storage and dis
tribution Of the aforesaid products.
CD To mine for, prospect for, drill
for. produce, buy or in any manner ac-
quire, and to market, sell. transport
and distribute natural gas, to mine for,
produce. buy or In any manner acquire.
to refine, manufacture into its several
products, and to sell, market. dis
tribute and transport petroleum., and
It's PRODUCTS and by-products, and to
construct, lay, purchase or in any man
ner acquire, to maintain and operate
q d to sell, lease. cucumber or IN any
| manner dispose Of works, buildings,
pipe lines, ties, machinery, apparatus,
appliances, facilities, rights, privileges.
franchises, ordinances, and all such
real and personal property as may be
necessary, useful or convenient to the
production, acquisition. storage, trans
po"tation and distribution OF natural
gas or petroleum, or both.
(c) To manufacture, buy sell, rent
and deal in stoves, engines. motors.
pliances. calculated. directly or indi-
RI tly, to promote the consumption or
use Of natural or artificial gas or pc
truleum, or any Of their products or
by products.
(d) To lease, buy or otherwise ac-
quire, to hold and operate, and to sell.
lease. cucumber or otherwise dispose
Of of nj ND 1QnAQ md
! leases, and rights to explore for and
| remove natural gas and petroleum and
to take contracts for the drilling Of oil
and gas wells, and to carry out and ex-
ecute the same.
(e) To generate, produce. buy or In
any manner acquire. and TO sell! dispose
of and distribute electricity for light,
heat, power and other purposes. and to
construct, erect or in any manner ac-
uufre, to own, hold and operate, and to
SELL exchange, lease, encumPer, or in
any manner dispose Of works, water
powers. dams, poles, pole-lines, con-
Quits. sub-ways, cables, machinery,
privileges, franchises, ordinances and
all such real and personal property as
may be necessary, useful or convenient
in the production, accumulation. sale.
transmission and distribution OF cleo
tricity, and to manufacture. buy, sell
and deal In fixtures, chandeliers, cleo
troliers, brackets, lamps. globes, mo-
tors, generators. meters. dynamoes.
batteries, and all other appliances, APP
paratus and devices, capable OF being
employed In connection with the gem
GRAFTON, accumulation, distribution.
| transmission and use Of electricity.
ca To vend, furnish or supply light.
heat and power by natural or artificial
gas, electricity, steam, water or other
means. and to acquire. operate and dts
pose OF, all such patents, Licences, real
estate and personal property. and such
rights, privileges and franchises OF
every kind and character. as shall b
necessary, useful or convenient In the
operation Of public utilities, including
those hereinbefore enumerated.
The amount Of capital stock 10 the
sum of six hundred thousand dollars
| $500 .000.00) divided into six thousand
| q, OOO) shares Of the par value OF. one
| hundred dollars ($100) each. All sub
scriptions for stock shall be payable in
such installments and at such times az
| the board Of directors may order.
The corporation shall commence
business upon recording Its articles Of
incorpation with the recorder Of deeds
| Of Wapello county, Iowa, and shall
continue for twenty COY years there.
after with the right of renewal as pro-
vided by law. and may be terminated
DIV vote OF not l06S tIldA :IWO-IHiIuD
| (2-3) Of the stock then outstanding a
any regular or special meeting called
as by the bylaws provided.
The affairs of the corporation shall
| be managed by a board Of five 60 d.
rectors, who shall be elected at the
| stockholders annual meeting which II
| to be held on the first Wednesday Of
April 1918, and annually thereafter.
The officers shall be president. vice
president, secretary and treasurer, as
sistant secretary and assistant treas
| urer.
| The highest amount of indebtedness
| to which the corporation shall at any
time subject Itself shall not exceed
! two-thirds (2-3) of it's capital stock
then issued and outstanding.
| Private property of the stockholders
shall not be liable for corporate debts.
1 Said articles Of Incorporation have
been filed with the recorder OF Wapello
county, Iowa and with the secretary Of
state of the state of Iowa.
Dated February IS, 1919
| Joseph F. Porter, "a