Jan 25/17  Special meeting of the board of director 
           held on the Twenty fifth day of January
           Nineteen hundred and seventeen.

           Meeting called to order by president Wiss
           at 2 P.M.

           The treasurer reported that he had
           after same negotiation purchased on behalf
           of the company with funds in the treasurer
           One hundred and forty shares of the companies
           stock of par value of Fourteen Thousand
           dollar at Thirteen Thousand dollar flat.

           Fanny B. Wiss merged and J. Robert Wiss
           seconded that the (140) One Hundred and
           Forty shares of preferred stock be retired and
           are hereby cancelled of record. Motion carried.
 
           Purchase was consummated Jan 6th, 1917.

           Motion to adjourn carried.

                                         Fanny B. Wiss Sec.