The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-03
FIRST Publication June 10. 1919.
STATEMENT OF REDUCTION
CERTfg4EtTE DECREASING rsAPITAk

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First Publication June 10. 1919.
STATEMENT OF REDUCTION
jeaRwfE4cfTE DECREASING cs2pITAh
STOCK.
@1fN9SS COMPANY. corporation ~
aq Tate Il delaware, by its President
lts Secssfary, and minority O. IFS
-ecfass. does herel'v certify
That she PRINCIPAL Once of the com
iiF is lacl,pss at Nos. 925-a2I Market
1aSi, IN lie civ Of W;l4siagton conats
Isl Newcastle 7sa State Of Delaware, and
TIT tie ageps tiorein ard in charge there
ia upon whom process against the roTpara
5-39s; iaay be served is Corporation Charters
taas a:.slr.
Thu; esi the 31st day Of Nav. 4 r
l"ii, p0FssaHt to a call OF the Fres1den.
upon n st;ce given to each stocEhold
ts rross9ea iii the BYLAWS aud As
49,. ssseefal meeting nf t.le stakeholder.
at tHa e8ss nssI4r was held. al wfinb n.eaksst.
i@ ~3 saarf-S. icing ms4re Khan two t.s1-sss
eaystHl stock of the rogapsEy fssA~is
;ils.l outstanding: and entitled 10 vaie
y'ege ;ssesesst or represented. and voted IN
| faN9r ~ tie resolution as follows:
| 'WIlFJsFiT the amount Of tie total
iantiia.sE@a eaTifsl stock Of this cai'poTst3on
Ias Thirteen iH:lfiur tf3. 9D3 Gtmnfl dollars
! divided into one hundred and thirty t't5r-
SaltI fl3staDl Shares OF fhe Par yalue CT
| o!'e hundred (1000ol dollars each; and
i q said anthorized capital stock thirty
Thousand cocoon shares amounting to-
/ three milton 5000, esAne01 dollars is Pre-
/ fafred Stock and one hundred tlonsand
| lliNFs0 shares amounting to ten million
| tlo.W0,eoO0o) dollars is Common StocE
and
WHEREAS. of said thirty thousand
l30.0ool shares amounting to three mil
lion t3,000000 000) dollars of Preferred
Stock, tWenty-three thousand four huns
/ drcn aId thirty six (23 436l shares amount
| ING to two million three hundred forty
Ithrea thousand and six hundred (2,343.-
6OO,00l dollars is issued and outstanding,
and SIX thousand five hundred and sixty
| foHr t8.ai'lt shares amounting to six hum
dItd ffty-six thousand four hundred
(6a6, 10000 dollars is unissued. and
WHEREAS, 1t is deemed advisable that
the capital stock of this corporation be
reduced to ten million (10,000,000.00) dol
lars tall Common Stock, and that the
decrease he effected by retiring thirty thou
sand 10000 shares being all of the Pre-
ferred Stock, amounting to three million
f3.0GOo0009 dollars, and
WHEREAS, All of the debts of said cor
poratton have teen paid and discharged,
except, those which, are otherwise fully
secured,
| NOW. THEREFORE,. BE TT, AND TT
stock of this company be reduced to ten
million (11000,000.0O1 dollars divided into
one hundred thousand (100,000l shares of
Common Stock of the par value of one
hundred (1O00O) dollars each, and no
Preferred Stock, by retiring on August /,
1919, (being a dividend date not less than
forty t40) days after this meeting) thirty
thousand 100000 shares Of. Preferred
Stock amounting to three million (3.000,-
0OO.O0) dollars, being all Of the Preferred
Stock authorized by the Certificate OF In
| corporation as amended, at the price of
one hundred and ten (11000) dollars per
share for all of the Preferred Stock issued
and outstanding, plus accumulated and
unpaid dividends thereon, and
BE TT, AND TT HEREBY is, FURTH-
| FIR RESOLVED, that a statement of the
10 and och tnd Ond nv
/ the President and majority of the. Direc-e
| tors. before an officer authorized by the
Laws of Delaware to take acknowledg-
ments Of deeds, to be the act and deed of
| the signers, respectively, and that the facts
/ therein stated are truly set forth, which
statement shall be fled In the Office of the
Secretary Of State Of Delaware, and q GER
| titled copy thereof recorded In the office Of
the Recorder of the County Of Newcastle
1 Delaware, where the principal office of the
/ said Company in Delaware is located, and
/ BE IT, AND IT HEREBY IS, FURTHER
/ RESOLVED, that the certificate decreasing
the capital stock as aforesaid, be published
/ for three (3) weeks successfully, at least
/ once In each week, in a newspaper pub
ished IN the county Of Newcastle, Della
ware and in newspaper published in Ke
nosha county, Wisconsin, the first pub
| lication to be made within fifteen (15) days
after the Sling of said certificate as afore
said !"
| 3 That at said meeting OF the stock
holders the foregoing resolution was as
| sented to in writing by the stockholders,
Of said company present or represented at
said meeting as aforesaid, which said writ
| ten assent is hereto appended.
/ A. That 1924 shares of the Preferred.
Stock, which, with the Common, Stock
asserting thereto, is more than two thirds
Of all Of the Stock issued and outstanding,
fled with the Secretary of the company at
said meeting their written consent to the
retirement Of the Preferred Stock of the
company and to the reduction of the cap
ital stock Of the company, a copy Of the
form Of which consent, together with the
/ list of Preferred Stockholders and the
amounts of preferred stock held by each
is hereto appended XII
81 That 1925 shares Of the Common
j Capital Stock of said corporation are is
sued and outstanding and entitled to vote.
6. That 23,436 shares of the Preferred
Stock Of said company are issued and out
! standing.
4 That the Board of Directors is. com
4 posed Of eighteen (1S) members.
TN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said
SIMMONS COMPANY has caused this
Decreasing Capital Stock to be signel by
its President and Secretary, and its cor
4 norate seal to be hereunto affixed this 31st
s SIMMONS COMPANY.
BY e. G. Simmons
Attest: 0. Ban1 d dAoust,
corporate sea pIREcToRs. secretary
" T. Award; J. C. Ferris: John F.
Gail; q G. Simmons; G. H. Milne; A. Fl.
Lance; @. Ban'l d'Aoust; Alfred Terrell;
Chester ID. Barnes and @. H. Schweppe
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
lCoUNTY OF KENosHA.
Be it remembered that on this 31st day
/ of May, A. p. 1919, before me the under
signed. Notary Public in and for the
/ State Of Wisconsin, personally came q G.
4 SIMMONS. President and O. B. d'AOUST
Secretary OF SIMMONS COMPANY. to
| me personally known and to me known to
be such officers of said company, and per
sonally came before me
z. G. Simmons
A. II. Lance
g. Fl. Milne
Alfred Terrell
" L. Award
I. G. Ferris
G. H. Schweppe
John F. Gail
@. r. d'Aoust, and