New Charters Filed — Western Coffee Company of San Antonio (San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 1907)
This Express-News Austin-bureau dispatch lists the Western Coffee Company of San Antonio among new corporate charters filed with the Texas State Department on 30 May 1907 — capital stock $10,000, incorporators H. C. Wedemeyer, Carson Wedemeyer Jr., J. L. Mayfield, and John S. Bridge. This is the formal founding-of-record for the Western Coffee Company that, later the same summer, would open the Buena Vista and Comal roasting plant covered in the 25 August 1907 Express piece.
Transcription
NEW CHARTERS FILED.
Western Coffee Company of San Antonio Will Conduct Business.
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., May 30.—Charters of the following corporations were filed in the State Department:
Farmers Union Gin Company of Hutto, capital stock $15,000. The incorporators are J. A. Johnson, Gust Hyltin, W. H. Hyslop, Walter Swenson.
The Plains Lumber Company of Happy, Swisher County, filed an amendment to its charter increasing its capital stock from $35,000 to $50,000.
The Western Coffee Company of San Antonio, capital stock $10,000, incorporators H. C. Wedemeyer, Carson Wedemeyer Jr., J. L. Mayfield and John S. Bridge.
The Wortham Gin and Light Company of Wortham, capital stock $10,000, incorporators W. T. Pittman, H. S. Morehead, J. W. Woods, J. W. McGrary.
Source
- San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas), Friday 31 May 1907, p. 3, “New Charters Filed — Western Coffee Company of San Antonio Will Conduct Business.”
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