ARTICLES OP INCORPORATION |
We, the undersigned, do hereby as
sociate ourselves together to become a
body corporate, and we hereby adopt
the following Articles of Incorporation
to-wit:
R. H. REISER.
FRED BECKWITH.
JOE BRUDER.
J. U. MARING.
HENRY WERNER.
ROSS E. HARRIS.
ARTICLE I.
Name and Place of Business.
The name of this association shall
be, Farmers Co-Operative Mercantile
Company, and Emmett, Holt County,
Nebraska, is the principal place of
transaction of its business.
ARTICLE II.
Nature of Business.
The nature of the business of this
association is the conducting of a Co
Operative Mercantile business in all
articles of merchandise and to acquire,
own and dispose of such Real Estate
and such personal property as may be
necessary or proper in carrying on the
business of this association. All mer
chandise to be sold on a cash basis.
ARTICLE III.
Stocks.
1. The Capital Stock of this as
sociation shall be $25,000.00, which
shall be divided into Two Hundred and
Fifty (250) shares of One Hundred
Dollars ($100) each.
2. This association shall commence
business when Seventy-five (75)
shares of stock has been subscribed
and paid in full.
3. Each stockholder of this as
sociation becomes subject to, accepts
and agrees to abide by these rules and
all future amendments enacted by the
association.
4. All shares when issued must be
registered on the books of the associa
tion in the name of the owner.
* 5. All transfer of stock must be
made on the books of the association,
provided: That no share of stock can
be transferred until all claims of the
association against such owner shall
have been settled.
6. No one member of this associa
tion shall own less than one nor more
than ten shares of stock of this as
sociation.
ARTICLE IV.
Stockholders Meetings.
1. The regular annual meeting of
the stockholders shall be held on the
third Tuesday of January.
2. Special stockholders meetings
may be called at any time by a major
ity of the Board of Directors; every
notice of a special meeting shall con
tain a statement of the nature of the
business to come before the meeting.
3. At any meeting the stockhold
ers present may constitute a quorum
for the transaction of any business
except the amending of the Constitu
tion an l By-Laws.
4. The Constitution and By-Laws
can be amended only at a regular
meeting of the stockholders, and a
majority of the stockholders must vote
for such amendment.
5. At any regular meeting or
special stockholders meeting, each
stockholder irrespective of the number
of shares of capital stock he may
own shall be entitled to only one vote
on any question that may come before
the meeting.
6. Voting by proxy shall not be
allowed at any meeting of the stock
holders, or on the Board of Directors.
•- Votes by mail will be accepted pro
viding the vote is in the hands of the
Secretary at the time of the meeting.
ARTICLE V.
Officers: How Elected.
1. The officers of the association
shall be the officers of the Board of
Directors, and shall be President, Vice
President and Secretary. A Treasurer
shall be appointed by the Board of
Directors, and be under bond to-the
association in such an amount as they
may see fit. The President, Vice Pres
ident and Secretary shall be elected
annually by the Board of Directors
at the annual meeting of the Board of
Directors and shall hold office for one
year; each of said officers must be a
Director.
2. The President shall preside at
all meetings of the stockholders and
directors, he shall sign all certificates
of stock; sign and execute all deeds,
contracts and instruments in writing,
when authorized to do so by the Board
of Directors, and perform such other
duties as shall be required by the
Board of Directors.
3. The Vice President shall per
form all the duties of the President
in the absence or disability of that
officer.
4. The Secretary shall keep a true
and complete record of all meetings
of the stockholders and of the Board
of Directors, countersign and. issue all
stock certificates, and keep 'a record
of same and perform such other duties
as may be required of him by the
Board of Directors.
5. The Treasurer shall receive ali
money paid into the association and
shall pay out same under direction of
the Board of Directors, keeping in a
suitable book a true account thereof.
The books of the Treasurer shall at
all times be open to the Board of
Directors.
ARTICLE VI.
Board of Directors.
1. At the annual meeting of the
stockholders, five directors shall be
elected from among the stockholders.
At the first annual meeting two of said
directors shall be elected for a term
of one year and three for a term of
two years. At subsequent meetings
all directors shall be elected for a term
of two years. After said directors
have organized and elected officers
they shall be known as the Board of
Dirctors.
2. When a vacancy shall occur on
the Board of Directors, the remaining
directors shall proceed to fill vacancy.
The person chosen shall hold office
until the next annual meeting of the
stockholders.
3. Any director failing to attend
three or more board meetings without
good cause, his office may be declared
vacant and the board proceed to fill
vacancy as provided.
ARTICLE VII.
Directors Meetings.
1. The regular meeting of the
Board of Directors shall be held on
the second Tuesday of each month,
the time of said meetings shall be
determined by the board, provided
however, that one of said meetings
shall be known as the annual meeting
of the Board of Directors, and shall
he held immediately after the close of
the annual meeting of the stock
holders.
2. Special meetings of the Board
of Directors may be called by the
President or any three of the Di
rectors.
3. At any meeting, regular or
special, three Directors shall consti
tute a quorum and a majority vote of
these present shall decide all
questions.
ARTICLE VIII.
1. All of the power of the associa
tion is vested in the Board of Di
rectors, and it shall be the duty of the
board to give active attention to the
business of the association, and the
board shall employ such agents and
employees as the board my deem ad
visable and fix the rate of compensa
tion.
2. The board shall have power to
remove any agent or employee for mis
conduct or incompetency o. for the
good of the association.
3. The board may call special meet
ings of the stockholders when they
may see fit.
4. The board shall have authority
to enter into any and all lawful con
tracts and obligations essential to the
transactions of its affairs.
5. The board shall have no power
to loan or to authorize any officer to
loan any of the funds of the associa
tion to themselves, to any person, or
firm or association. Annually, imme
diately after the end of the business
year the Board of Directors shall make
a division of the earnings of the as
sociation for the year as follows:
After the running expenses for the
year has been paid and if any profits
remain such profits shall be divided
equally among each share of paid up
stock.
ARTICLE IX.
Amount of Indebtedness.
The highest amount of indebtedness
to which this association shall subject
itself shall not exceed one-fourth of its
paid up stock. Provided, that no lia
bility or indebtedness shall be created
or incurred except under order of the
Board of Directors, particularly pro
viding therefor.
ARTICLE X.
This corporation shall exist for the
period of twenty-five (25) years, from
and after the time it is legally
incorporated.
ARTICLE XI.
The stockholders of said corporation,
it any annual meeting or at any
special meeting called for that pur
pose, may adopt, change or revoke any
jy-law that they may see fit.
rhe State of Nebraska, Holt County,
SSI
On this 13th day of March, A. D.
1920, before me the undersigned, a
Notary Public in and for said County,
iuly commissioned and qualified per
sonally came the above named
R. H. Keiser, Fred Backwith, Joe
Bruder, J. W. Maring, Henry Werner
ind Ross E. Harris, to me personally
mown to be the identical persons
whose names are affixed to the above
nstrument, and they acknowledged
:he execution of said instrument to be
iheir voluntary act and deed for the
purposes therein expressed.
Witness my hand and Notorial Seal
the day and year last above written.
(Seal) W. P. Daily,
42- 5 Notary Public.
Vly Commission Expires April 20,1925.
(First publication April 1.)
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Estate No. 1076.
[n the County Court of Holt County,
Nebraska, March 31, 1920.
in the matter of the Estate of John J.
Kelly, Deceased.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that the Exe
:utor of said estate has filed in said
Bourt his final report and a petition
For final settlement and distribution
bf the residue of said estate; and that
said report and petition will be heard
it 10 o’clock a. m., April 23, 1920, at
;he County Court Room in O’Neill, Ne
braska, when all persons interested
may appear and be heard concerning
said final report and the distribution
bf said estate.
(Seal) C . J. MALONE,
43- 3 County Judge.
(First publication April 15.)
(W. J. Hammond, Attorney.)
LEGAL NOTICE.
Daniel Horrigan, The Unknown
Heirs, Devisees, Legatees and Personal
Representatives of and all other per
sons interested in the estate of Daniel
Horrigan, deceased, and the following
described real estate to-wit: Com
mencing two rods west of the south
east comer of the Northeast Quarter
of Sestion 19, in Township 29 North,
of Range 11, West of the 6th Princi
pal Meridian in Holt County, Nebras
ka, thence running North 10 rods,
thence running West 32 rods, thence
running South 10 rods, thence running
East 32 rods to the place of beginning,
and all persons claiming any interest
of any kind in said real estate or any
part thereof, defendants will take
notice that on April 15, 1920, Patrick
E. McKillip plaintiff filed a petition in
District Court of Holt County, Ne
braska, against you the object and
prayer of which are to secure a decree
of Court quieting in plaintiff the title
to the following described real estate
to-wit: Commencing two rods West
of the southeast corner of the North
east Quarter of Section 19, in Town
ship 29 North, of Rang'e 11 West of
the 6th Principal Meridian in Holt
County, Nebraska, thence running
North 10 rods, thence running West
32 rods, thence running South i0 rods,
thence running East 32 rods to the
place of beginning; and adjudgig
plaintiff to be the owner in fee simple
thereof; and decreeing that you have
no title, right or interest in said
premises; and removing the clouds
east upon plaintiff’s title to said
premises by reason of your claims to
some right, title or interest in said
premises; and forever enjoining you
from asserting any right, title or in
terest in said premises advorse to
plaintiff. You are required to answer
said petition on or before the 24th day
of May, 1920.
PATRICK E. McKILLIP,
45.4 Plaintiff.
MULLEN SUFFRAGE
RECORD FACES HIM
Women Recall His Refusal To Fight
Referendum, and Statements.
Omaha News, April 2.-—The suf
frage record of Arthur F. Mullen,
democratic national committeeman,
said by himself to have been consist
ently in favor of women’s votes in a
communication to the O’Neill, Neb.,
Frontier, has been challenged by Mrs.
H. C. Sumney and Mrs. Grace Rich
ardson of the women’s republican com
mittee, both of whom were prominent
suffrage workers during the state
fight.
Documentary proof that Mullen op
posed suffrage in 1918 is furnished in
the form of an affidavit of conversa
tion between Mullen and the two
Women, and is supported by extracts
from a report made over Mullen’s sig
nature as a member of a special com
mittee from the Equal Suffrage So
ciety, in which it was deemed inad
visable to challenge signers of the
suffrage referendum petition.
Says Suffrage is Mistake.
Statement by Mullen that “the
government made a mistake when it
gave the vote to the ‘niggers, and he
didn’t want to see the mistake repeated
by giving the right of suffrage to
women,’’ was recently sworn to by
Mrs. Sumney and Mrs. Richardson in
a report to the National Suffrage As
sociation. It is said to have been
made during a conversation in which
Mullen was urged to use his influence
with Senator G. M. Hitchcock to sup
port a national suffrage measure.
The Mullen report was made after
the Equal Suffrage society had been
solicited for funds to aid the fight
against the referendum petition in
October, 1918. It says in part:
Mullen’s Report on Referendum.
“The successful prosecution of the
suit will not result in the full enfran
chisement of women, nor dispeifee ^vith
the necessity of a state campaign for
constitutional suffrage."
“Information obtained from credible
sources is to the effect that to invali
date the referendum petition on the
ground of fraud will require the dis
crediting of 3,500 purported signa
tures; that it is improbable that com
petent evidence can be produced to
disquilify 3,500 of the purported peti
tioners; and that the costs of taking
testimony to disqualify purported
signers of the referendum presents the
sole and only occasion for an appeal
for funds.”
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