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Certificate of Incorporation of the Cannon & Fetzer Company,
High Point Branch, Incorporated.

This is to certify that we, the undersigned, do hereby
associate ourselves into a corporation under and by virtue of
the laws of North Carolina, and do hereby severally agree to
take the number of shares of capital stock in said corporation
set opposite our respective names, and to that end, do hereby
set forth.

1st. The name of this corporation is Cannon & Fetzer Company,
High Point Branch, Incorporated.

2nd. The location of the principle office in this state is at
High Point, N. C. but it may have one or more branch offices
and places of business out of the state of North Carolina, as
well as in said state.

3rd. The objects for which this corporation is formed are as
follows:

1. To acquire and take over as a going concern the mercan-
tile business now conducted on South Main Street, High Point
N. C. under the name and style of Cannon & Fetzer company, a
branch of Cannon & Fetzer Company, Concord, N. C.

2. To buy, sell, exchange and otherwise deal in goods,
wares and merchandise of every kind and description, and to
conduct, by wholesale and retail, in any or all of its branches
the business of general merchandising.

3. To establihs and conduct a general department store.

4. To carry on all or any of the business of dry goods
merchants, cloth manufacturers, furriers, haberdashers, hosiers,
manufacturers, importers, wholesale and retail dealers of and
in textile fabrics of all kinds; milliners, dressmakers, mantua-
makers, tailors, hatters, clothiers, furnishers, outfitters,
glovers, lace manufacturers, feather dressers, boot and shoe
makers; manufacturers and importers and wholesale and retail
dealers of and in leather goods, household furniture, china
and glassware, crockery and other household fittings and uten-
sils, ornaments, bric-a-brac, stationery, notions and fancy