' THE LINCOLN E(UITABLE GO-OPERATIVE INDUSTRIA. SOCIETY, LTD., CENT RAX PRKMISKS,
Silver Street Front.
Free School Lane Front. "SLOW BUT SURE." "UNION IS STRENGTH. "
~+11(f((I(1 CI. .(I((((((bIf Ki((-(APf I'(l(II'f 3$(1(I((5II'll(1 $ Oi (fI(I, /IN(If(I, ESTABLISHED 18B1. IJVCORPORrffTED BE ACT OE PARLDAKEKI N' P M DICT., C 87.
OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY.—First, It provides its Members and the General Public with Bread, Flour, Grocery, Provisions, Drapery, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Butchers' Meat, Coals, (kc.
Second, It seeks the domestic, social, and intellectual advancement of its Members.
Annual Business over $147,000. Number of Members, 6,260. Share Capital, $69,Z06 Zs. fkL Bssgzas —THE LINCOLN AND LINDSEY BANKING COMPANY, Lffsfrsn.
The REPORT 85 EALANCE SHEET for the ix8tIh Qg@rter, ENDED APRIL 1st, 1891.
Grocery. Drapery. Boots»b Shoes. Tssor(ng. Fanrishing. Total. Purchases from the Co-opcrative Wholesale Society...... 65,248 81,200 $409 8150 6460 67,462
from other Co-operative Sources. .. 69 84 68 581
Value of Goods produced by this Society 611,698.
Animals Slaughtered during the Quarter: —Beasts 128; Sheep 282; Pigs SSS; Calves 6; Total 749.
Central Stores snd Offices —SILVEB STREET AKD FBEE SCHOOL LAKE, LIKCOLK. Kc. 1 Branch —BBACEBBIDGE. Ko. 8 Branch —SAXILBY.
»» »» BURTOK ROAD» LIKCOLK' —BAGGZHOLME BOLD, LIKCOLK. 8 —SHAKESPEARE STRlgET, LIKCOLK. 10 —KEWLA. KD STREET WEST, LIKCOLK. — 4 ~ ~ BIPOK STREET» LIKCOLK 11 »» BABDKEY'. 6 —WELBOUBK. 18 —KOBTH STBEET, HORKCASTLE. 6 —METHZBIKGHAM. 18 —SOUTH STBEET, SLEAFOBD.
»» 7 —Qt. KOBTHERK TEBR., LIKCOLK. 14 »» —HIQH STBEET, LIKCOLK.
The QUA. RTERLY XEKTLtG will be held in the Large Hall, on Monday Evening, May 4th, 1891, At r -BO I&-m PROGRAMME OF BUSINESS.
1. «(Siaatcs of the has Qasrhafy (fasting S. "Rtcchoa of Rdacsgonal Committee. msn, « "ddmlssiaa of Saw Members. " 6. «Romiastions far Ffsshhmh Tmasarsr, Secretary three Committee-mca snd S. - The Bcbuae Sheet sad Report. " an da»htce. " «Rssolalion tobe moved by blr. y. W. Cadi(ag, sad mcoadcd V(f. 6. bysfr. f. 'T. "dny other Tmdsr, «That the arne of SSC be gmatsd to the Cammittcc, Bashaas" for thc perpend of s Flower, Fndt, snd Vegetable Show, to be hshl ja » ~ Lincoln Equitable Co-Operative Industrial Society, Limited.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
'Mr. WM. REYNOLDS, President .. 26 'Mr. JOSEPH MARTIN 26 Mr. J. J. KERSHAlv. .. 'Mr. GEORGE HARTLEY, Treasurer...... 26 Mr. GEORGE LEWIS. .., 26 Mr. J. BROADBERRY. .. 'Mr. DUNCAN McBINES, Seoretsry ...... 26 'hfr. EDWARD LA.SCELLES .. 26 hfr. W. B. HOWARD 26 'hfr. WIL COULSON ...... 26 Mr. J. GAhfBLE ..
Annrvoas —*hfr. GEORGE RICHARDSON, Mr. JAS. ORANGE. Casnraa —Mr. FRED STEPHENSON.
The Sgares after the names indicate the number of Committee Meetings attended; 26 having been held. Those marked ' retire but are eligible for re-eleeti n.
DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES.
Boors...... Messrs. COULSON, LASCELLES, A LEWIS. Dairaar A Tiiioanro. .hfessrs. MARTIN, HOWARD, a REYNOLDS. Bcrcaasv...... Messrs. LEWIS, BBOADBERRY, ft HOWARD. Flaaaca. .. ., Messrs. MoINNES, HARTLEY, A COULSON. Bnrunrses...... Messrs. KERSHAW, LEWIS, ds GAhf BLE. Gsocsav...... hfessrs. KERSHAW, BROADBERRY, A GAMBLE. Coen ...... Menus. hfABTIN, HOWARD, A GAMBLE. Romsso A tsva gross. .hfessrs. HARTLEY, LASCELLES, d REYNOLDS.
COMMITTE E'S REPORT. To THE MEMBERS, Ws beg to submit to you the 118th Quarterly Report and Balance Sheet. The total Receipts for Goods sold during the Quarter is E89,127 4s. 84d., being an increase of E5,066 16s. 4&d. over the corresponding Quarter of last year. The net profit on the Quarter's Business is $4,809 17s. 7d., which sum will allow 6962 16s. Ol.d. for Interest, E,2,891 18s. 4d. as Dividend, being ls. Sd. per 8 on Members* purchases, and E81 being Sd. per 6 on purchases of bien-Members; 692 Os. Sd., being 2&7. per annum for depreciation of Branch and Cottage Property; $93 9s. Sd. be 10$ depreciation of Fixed Stock; 656 being 5$ depreciation of Milling plant; $48 2s. 6d. for Educational Purposes; $15 for Congress Fund; and $119 15s. 114d. to Reserve Fund. 207 persons have joined the Society within the Quarter, 66 have withdrawn, and 4 forfeited as per Rule 6, making the present number 6,260, being an increase of 187 over last Quarter. Plans are being prepared for providing additional accommodation at the Welbourn and Metheringham Branches. The magnitude of the present trade and the prospective increase at each place, justify us in taking this course. When the extensions are finished, goods in bulk will be invoiced wholesale to each Branch, as this plan of supplying them has now become preferable to the present, which is best suited to a smaller trade, and to branches nearer to the Central Stores, from which daily supphes cau be sent as required. The following figures show the progress tuade by the two branches during the last seven years:— 1886. 1890. Wtdbourn ...... Sales. Profits. Sales. Profits. $4,088 8225 67,628 6506 1886. 1890. Metheringham...... Sales. Profits. Sales. Profits. 84011 6286 $7,858 E498 We beg to direct attention to the Exhibition of Co-operative Productions which, in connection with the approaching Co oper ative Congress will be opened in the Corn Exchange by the Mayor of Lincoln, on Saturday, May 18th, at 4 p.m. We trust afi the Members, together with their friends, will make a point of visiting it, as its object is to promote the sale of goods of Co-operative mttnufitcture. The exhibition will remain open during the Congress Sittings.
Arrangements can be made through the Manager of the Drapery and Furnishing Departments for funerals to be undertake throughou& As tlds business has been started at the written request of several Members, we trust to receive EB orders that any unfortunately„ through bereavement, be compelled to give. We shaB shortly submit to the Members, at a General Meeting, the question of lighting the whole or part of the Centr~ Stores aud the Mill by electricity. FINANCIAL STATEMENT, from Januaty 1st to Apvil 1st, 1891.
Dr. CASH ACCOUNT. Cr. RECEIPTS. s. rl. 8 s d. DISBURSEbfEiVTS. s. d. To Cash in Bank snd Cashier'e Hands...... 980 14 116 BT AEOUET PAID VOB GOODS— „Sale of Goods —Ceotrsl, Grocery...... 5O98 8 9 „Grocery .... 11,659 5 8 Drapery 52 Mi!Iinery . . 20650 15 ld „Drapery snd Millinery 2,604 17 6 Boot rk Shoe...... l,o!2 I St , . Boot and Shoe .... 1,034 0 4 Butchering 4,127 19 9& „Butchering. ... 4,858 9 6 Hides, Skins, Fate kc 424 2 Sh „Coals 1,004 13 10 Coals ...... 482 18 5 „Tsi!oring 6&82 13 4 Tailoring I,0f7 8 6 „Furnishing 892 15 7 Furnishing .. 750 5 8'9» 9;217 4 7 Bracebridge, No. I Branch .... !,475 11 2 „Carriage of Goals 610 12 7 Newport, No. 2 Branch, ...... 1.5SO 11 5$/ „Carriage of Coals .. 78 c 0 Shakespeare-st. No. 8 Breach '&I! , I, 0 8$ y 32,682 14 1!&» Bipon Street No. 4 Branch .. 1,4!9 2 3 v' WAGEE TGB l Bonne&Iva LAEUUB- Welboura, No. 5 Branch 188& 4 7~ „ Grocery ...... 229 7 8 ilf etherioghsm, No. 6 Branch .. I,SII 19 04 ~ „Drapery snd hiillinery 01 16 3 Gt. Northern. terr. , No 7 Branch 12&S4 18 5 ., Boot snd Shoe ...... , 100 8 I Saxi!by, No. 8 Branch 1122 4 8B „Butcheriug 66 19 0 Bsggeholme-&d. , No. 9 Branch .. I 57& 6 Ol „Tailoring 137 15 4 Newland-st. West, No. 10Branch I,'251 10 lid , Furn&ehmg 41 4 9 Bsrdney, No 11 Branch 1,035 13 0 „sfillere 282 19 5 Homcsstle, No. 12 Branch .... Sso 8 7 867 5 I ty Slesford, No. 13 Branch 1,634 9 WAGES TJB DISTBIBUTIVE LASOUS- High Street, No. 14 Branch. .... 1,2is 2 ld Grocery ...... blill ...... 418 4 6 .... 3.022 8 Drsperv snd iMiilinsry. 191 I 6 o Sale of Coals —iVo, 1 Branch...... 47 8 9 Boot aud Shoe I'o. 51 0 6 2 112 11 4$ Butchering 96 0 No. 3 10 So 16 6 Tsiloriag 61 8 6 No. 4 106 9 6 Fu&ui&&nnl No 5 4218 0 18 11 U Coals 107 No 6 1 10 138 I Od 0!Bce 132 No. 7 16 0 7& IS 6 1,030 ll 8 No. 8 29 0 0 COEEISSIOE AÃD &YAGES AT I'BE BBAEOBES- y No. 9 9411 9 No. I Branch ...... 38 4 8 No. 10 82 5 0 No. 2 No. 11 2918 0 18 2 2 No. 3 26 3 9 No. I& 34 18 10$ No. 4 2812 I No. 13 66 4 3 No. 5 68 No. 14 16 6 65 4 0 No. 6 78 12 2 —39,127 4 86 y No. 7 21 14 0 Additions to Share Capital — ...... 2857 2 7 No. 8 30 11 Loan Capital 1,094 15 o No. 9 51 Deposi&e in Penny y 5 0 Bank, Central 916 6 6 No. 10 27 17 0 No. I Branch. . 11 2 4 No. Il 26 11 0 No. 2 Branch. . 22 4 I No. 12 39 0 0 No. 3 Branch. . 14 16 I No. 18 Sg11 0 No. 8 Branch .. 13 S 10 No. 14 29 18 0 No. 11Branch 5 0 7 561 14 8&y No. 12 Branch „Withdrawals from 46 16 3 Share Capital 4,221 Ig 3 9»y No. 13 Branch 310 0 from Loan Capital. , ...... 1,289 410 i» 1,03'& 19 8 from Penny Bank ...... 655 4 2»' Bepayments fmm House Parehseere —Members Property „d.dditioue to Fixed snd. Bo!ling Stock 3$ Accouat. Account ills 4 gv ...... ,...... 827 9 „Additions to Membere' Proper&y Accoant...... 8 '5' fy» „M&megement Expeaees ditto AUDIT&ons To BUIDDIEG AOOGUETs- 9 „Cottage Bank&, Central ...... 2 2 0 Centrsl 118 18 0 Newport ...... 7 7 6 „Wst&rs&ie North ...... 20 0 0 Shakespeare Street ...... , . 214 0 „North Hykehsm (Farm) ...... 100 0 0 f45'4
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0 V 9 10 0&f lfl 0 .. Cseh in Hand ... 3,291 18 I 408 16 3$ $46&282 11 0 $46,282 11 0 Dr. 8HA.RE CAPITAL ACCOUNT. Cr.
s. d. s. d To Withdrawals . 4,224 19 8 By Capital ss per last Balance Sheet 67,462 4 8 „Forfeits on Withdrawals deducted from Fixed Stock Account 611 2 „ Interest on 117th Quarter 720 0 0 „Fozfeite on Shares puzchssed. . 818 0 „Dividend on 117th Quarter. . 3.D30 0 0 „220 Deposits to Bmlding Account g 5»- each o5 0 0 „Contributione. 2,857 2 „Fines 8 8 „Allowed for Dividend snd Interest but not required ...... ?0 2 9 „Present Claims of Idembers 69,706 7 6
274,069 7 4 $74,069 7 4
Dr. LOAN CAPITAL ACCOUNT. Cr.
s. d. s. d To Withdrawals 1,289 4 0, By Loans as per last Bala ioe Sheet 15,953 10 4 „Present Claims 16.911 12 2 „ Interest ss per last Balance Sheet 152 11 3 „Contribuiioos 1,094 15 5 $17JJDQ 17 0 $17,200 17 0
FIXED, ROLLING, AND LIVE STOCI( ACCOUNT.
Previous Additions Additions by Total Depreciation Allowed by last I'rom Foes, Total Balance. Cost. this Quarter. own Workmen. Cost. previously allowed. Balance Sheet. Depreciation. Nominal Value. 6 s. d. s. d. 8 s. d. s. d. s. d. s il. s. d. s. d. 8 s. d. '7, 25 4 847 15 54 108 4 9 8 7,981 8 6$ 4,128 1 10$ 93 0 0 20 &J 1 4,241 10 Ill 8,739 17 7
MILLING PLANT ACCOUNT.
Previous Additions Total Depreciation Alloweil by test Total Balance. Cost. this Quarter. Goer. previously sgowed. Balance Shoe&. Doprecisto&n Nominal Value. s. d. 5 s. d. s. d. 3 s. d. i. s. ib s. 04'1 iJ 5,026 19 8 17 0 0 o, 19 8 510 9 oil 9 &i 5&id l9 3 4,477 0 0 Dr. RL&'SERVE FUND. Cr.
6 e. d. 8 s. d. Io Testimonial to the late Semetsry of the Educational Depsitment 25 0 0 By Balance ss per last Balance Sheet 3,157 17 8$ „Balance . 8,24&& 7 8$ „Forfeits on Shares purchased 318 0 „Allowed by last Balance Sheet ...... 38 9 8 „ABowed for Dividend snd Interest but not required . 70 2 9
68,265 V 8$ $8,265 7 Sl
Dr, MEMBERS' PROPERTY ACCOUNT. Cr.
s. 8 s. d. 6 s, To Amount advanced on Property ss per last Balance Sheet . . . 18,255 8 6 By Repayments ss per Cash Accouut 897 9 4 „Cash adv&meed on Property ss per Gash Account ...... J o 9 „Less Interest &85 14 9 711 14 7 Balance owing to the Society 17,e46 19 8 618,258 14 3 $18,258 14 8
Dr. I AND AND BUILDING ACCOUNT. Cr.
Additions this Depreciation Allowed Total Present Property. Previous Cost. Qnarter. Total Cost. Previooely all'wd. last Quarter. Depreciation. ' Nominal Value. e. s. d. &6 s. d. s. d. 8 s. d. 8 s. d. s. d. 118 18 0 7 Central Stores. ... 22,788 18 7 22,907 ll 2,658 0 7 2710 0 2,685 10 7 20 222 I Brscebridge 689 1 9 639 1 9 89 2 6 3 8 9 9'& 1l 3 648 10 7 928 11 7 139 12 Newport 918 11 1 418 9 144 10 10 VS4 0 1 6 645 I 6 6 ii 3 8 9 Shslmspeare Street. .... 64o 95 9 98 15 3 546 6 8 10 10 1,187 10 10 17&& 6 4 5 Ripen Street 1,187 6 6 182 12 10 1,004 18 0 Welbamn ...... »82 0 9 882 o 9 Si& 8 9 419 6 91 8 3 790 12 1,011 19 6 113 3 6 6 hfetheringhsm;...... 1041 19 6 516 0 118 19 6 928 0 905 Ii 11 0 BraatyforthernTerrace . 90& 5 ll 78 0 8 o 5 6 83 4 2 822 I 9 584 6 584 6 4 65 6 4 8 2 6 88 8 10 495 I'I 16 0 6 776 16 0 776 115 0 6 4 2 9 119 8 8 657 12 547 8 11 81 14 11 9 lfewfse46 INwit West .. 541 3 11 218 8 84 15 2 462 10 9 Bstclney 683 0 10 683 0 10 63 19 10 311 8 67 11 1 665 759 4 6 759 4 6 48 1 0 4 9 0 9 9 Harmisstia ~*,; .. 52 10 0 VQ6 14 6 2 353 14 7 8355 14 7 38 I 10 14 9 9 52 11 7 617 18 I& 2,801 8 0 High Street . 617 18 I I 12 I 815 0 22 7 I o95 593 16 0 89 6 H 0 Free School Laf&a . .. . 598 16 i& 0 8 3 0 9'& 9 0 5DI . z76 4 11 41 7 o 7 Q 276 4 11 1 9 3 4216 8 288 0 0 7,199 11 11 861 3 0 8 Water&nde Iforth. ..-.. 7+79 11 11 27 10 0 888 13 0 6,610 18 11 Sincil Terrace. . . .. 1&286 15 9 1,286 15 9 170 17 9 613 3 177 11 0 . 564 18 I 310 Idt59 4 9 Eesteven Sttest .-..... 564, 18 I I 310 3 7 0 4 557 I2 '0 1/61 8 0 0 Q 0 9 HorB& Hykchsua (Fazznj I,QQI 8 0 0 0 0 Q 0 Is181 8 8 $288 IS 645,441 17 4 B4,556 1 8 4148&2fe 19 4 0 2140 6 Q 24,693 7 8 e i.i Dr. GENERAL STATEMENT. Cr. e. d. 8 s. d. To Share Capital 69,706 7 6 By Stock, Grocery 3,279 18 8 „Loan Capital 15,911 12 2 Drapery snd MBBnery .. . . 4,046 3 9 „Penny Bank Deposits 6,261 4 4 Boot snd Shoe 2,015 17 11 „Reserve Fund 8,240 7 8$ Butchering .... 469 19 3 „Branch Managers' Bonds . 716 6 7 3 1 8 „Congress Fund Account 160 0 0 Tsiloriag...... 4,040 9 5 „Balance 4,309 17 7 1,329 4 9 No. 1 Branch 252 17 6 No. 2 850 6 0 No. 3 808 9 6 No. 4 249 0 0 No. 5 674 11 0 No. 6 660 5 0 No. 7 247 12 0 No. 8 406 16 9 No. 9 301 15 5 No. 10 273 19 6 No. 11 381 9 0 No. 12 415 2 0 No. 18 1,249 9 1 No. 14 131 4 6 Mill ...... 2,878 7 4 28,967 14 7 „Buddmg snd Lend Account 41,748 9 8 „Members' Property Account 17,546 19 3 „ Fixed Stock Account 3,739 17 7 „ Milling Plant Account ...... , ...., .. 4,477 0 0 „Shares in "Co-operative Wholesale Society...... , ... 2,750. 0 0 "Hebden Bridge Fustian Co-op. Society "..., ...... 20 0 0 "The Co-operative Insuzsnce Company o ...... 50 0 0 "The Leicester Hosiery Co-op. Society " ...... 200 0 0 "The Co-operative Printing Society " 25 0 0 "Paisley Idsnufsctuzing Co-operative Society"...... 50 0 0 "London Productive Society" ...... o ...... 10 0 0 "Thomson!2 Son's Productcve Society 50 0 0 Co operative Nezvspsper Society' 10 0 0 "Crsdley Heath Chain Maker'e society" 10 0 0 "Dedley Bucket snd Fender Society" 30 0 0 „Lincoln Corporation Bedeemsble Stock 1,920 0 0 Cash in Bank, snd Csshiez's „. hands 3,700 14 49 $100,805 15 lip $100,805 15 10d PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Cr. s. d. s. d. By Bidanse disposable 309 17 4, 7 By Profli, Gmcery 685 16 99 Drapery snd IfiRinery. .. 275 8 0) Boot snd Shoe 171 13 gd Butchering .... 565 12 0 Coals 147 9 8 Tailoring...... 127 6 8$ Furaichmg...... 78 7 26 No. I Branch R!7 8 0 No. 2 144 9 llf No 8 109 5 Oi No. 4 116 11 2 No. 5 137 3 1 No. 6 127 19 gd No. 7 97 7 3 No. 8 84 16 11 No. 9 126 17 54 No. 10 107 18 11$ No. 11 67 16 8 No. 12 59 4 10 No. 13 147 I 11$ No. 14 111 4 44 Mill ...... 302 12 1Q 8,849 6 8 , Rents, se per Cash Account 68 I2 6tz Rules , aml Cards 4 17 IO P' „Interest from Members' Property Account. .., , ...... , ... 186 14 9& „Mknsgement Expenses do. 814 CW „Dividend and Iaterect fram Hebden Bridge Faetisn Society .. 9 9 gz Dadiey Bucket snd Fender Society 115 5z Co-operative Priating Society .... 214 Oa W. Thomson Sons, Limited...... 3 8 9z Leicester Co-op. Hosiery Society. . 615 Or Co-operative Insurance Company 8 0 Or Co-operative Wholesale Society .. 170 18 Ov $4,309 17 7 PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROFIT. 6 s. d. - SI a.gd. 6 s. d. To Intezect on Share Capital ...... 760 0 0 By Balance,*disposable .. 4,309 17 7 Interest on Loan Capital 150 14 8 Interest on Penny Bank Deposits ..... 53 0 0$ „Interest on Branch Managers' Bonds . 9 I 9 962 16 0$ v „Dividend on $34,700, st I/8 in the 6...... 2,891 13 4 + „Non-Membem' Dividend on $930 st gd. in the 6 31 0+0 & „26per cent. Depreciation of Branch snd Cottage Property . 92 0 8 „10pez cent. Depicnstion of Fixed Steak 98 9 6 „5per cent. „ofhGlling Plant 56 0 0 Audited snd found correct, April 21st, 1891. 241 9 9 v „Educational Grant, li per cent. of Net Profit .. 48 2 6 GEO. RIOHAEDSO¹ „Congress Fund 15 0 Dr „Restive Fund 119 15 116 z., JA.S. OIIApt GE. S4 309 17 7 $4,809 17 7 PBOBRESS OP THE SOCIETY. Fmom ftm comnxencement in Septembem, ISGI, to Decembem, 1890. Average Reserve Number ofIblembcrc Capital. Sales. Pro fitc. Dividends. Pand. 3,'I c. d. c. d. e. d. s. d. e. d. Ended lgiil 74 1'19 6 46 365 17 7 18 9 4$ 0 9 1862 119 368 1 7I 2,007 4 6 77 18 3 0 8 1863 152 439 8 5 1,914 1 1$ 75 17 3 0 8 1864 162 454 4 9 2,188 8 Dd 91 2 0 0 8$ 1865 254 672 7 66 3,148 8 1$ 146 4 0$ 0 11 1866 330 1,027 1 4 4,736 8 8$ 297 6 tip 1 2 518 6 1867 488 1,528 14 8 8,167 18 9 576 18 8 1 3$ 110 76 1868 2,845 9 10 12,284 11 5 908 5 8 1 4 11 19 7$ 1869 762 8,068 14 8 14,326 15 5 944 16 9 1 3$ 17 2 Di} 1870 850 3,815 3 8 15,840 6 1,157 18 8 1 36 31 16 0$ 1871 1,032 4,776 16 0 20,173 8 1 1,647 16 10 1 4$ 116 9 I 1872 1,278 6,602 9 10 26,220 11 5 1,936 6 11 I 4 151 9 D 1873 1,439 7,992 2 1 29,594 0 2,291 9 9 1 4 106 14 ll 1874 1,675 9,888 16 1D 37,349 6 9 2,490 14 8 1 1$ 175 14 8 1875 1,714 9,406 4 0 39,'060 1'2 8 2,388 16 10 0 116 147 19 2 1876 1,726 9.793 8 6 34,456 8 8$ 2,534 13 lf 1 8 37 10 7 1877 1,806 10,348 12 8 38,727 17 5$ 2,920 9 74 1 2 69 18 1$ 1878 1,824 11,004 7 1 4'3,365 18 0 3,503 0 8$ 1 2$ 101 16 76 1879 1,935 13,202 14 0 47,844 6 4,756 11 6$ 1 6 292 3 8 1880 2,072 15,031 12 8 54,220 9 5$ 4,o99 1 4 1 4 263 1 6$ 1881 2,504 18,357 19 6 67,471 18 3$ 5,942 11 6 1 5 209 17 4 1882 2,968 22,945 13 0 84,217 11 7.575 18 66 1 5 360 6 1883 3,544 30,616 6 2 99,745 12 26 9,182 1 2$ 1 5$ 472 11 Di 1884 3,807 35,227 10 10 100,188 9 6 10,418 I4 4 1 5f 1,024 3 8$ 1885 4,016 40,571 18 1 95,146 18 66 11,113 1 54 1 7 1,512 15 6 1886 4,448 45,770 1 11 102,090 9 0$ 11,081 15 1 6 1,719 5 6 1887 4,737 49,204 10 0 114,482 16 5$ 11,097 18 66 1 5$ 1,851 4 2 1888 5,117 55,022 8 1 126,329 9 56 12,732 4 5 1 7 2,207 16 0 1889 5,578 61,584 12 9 134,878 0 2 14 568 12 11 1 74 2,606 15 64 1890 6,123 67,462 4 9 147,557 11 9 15,496 19 I 7 3,157 17 8$ 31,506,134 3 0$ $142,568 3 DI EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE. htr. J. W. GODLING, President .. .., . . . o Ifr. G. BACON (ill) ...... , ...... , . . 3 Mz. W. HEWSON 6 lfr. G. BICHARDSON, Treasurer ...... 5 vMr. P. NEEDLEY , , . 5 Mr. A. HUODLESTONE 'Mr...... L W. TOWLER, Secretary...... 6 Mr. A. KEEP ...... , . . . 2 *Mr. A. WBIGHT (resigned) 0 hh'. C. PICKRRING 6 *Mr...... C. TBEAVET1'...... ~ The figuzes after the names indicate the number of Committee lKeetinge attended, eix having been held. " Retiring Membeze. The following are nominaiud for the Educational Committee, to 611 six vacancies; WILLIAM LOVET 1', JOHN MOORE, F. NEEDLEY, A. R. SIZELAND, I. W. TOWLER, C. TREAVETT, and W. WOODGOUSE. Members must not vote for more than Six Csndidatec. Votes mash be given by maldng s opposite to the names of the Candidates selected for aapport. Bach member sh-w )( met hie pace Card to obtain a Voting paper from the person who givee them ouh The home of voting sre trom 7 till 9 p.m. , on Msy 4th, 1891. Dr. EDUCATIONAL DKPARTIfENT. Gr. . INCOME. EXPENDITURE. E s. d. To Balance forward ...... 22 2 9 To Cleaning 110 9 „Cards, Catalogues, snd Pines 419 4 „Ambulance Class 116 9 „Quarterly Grant .. 49 7 0 „Printing 1 10 10 Sale of Papers „Libraria'e Salary .. 710 0 „New Books 37 9 8 „Books Repaired . 2 2 8 „Children's Entertainmen 1 3 4 „Librarian'c Account . 017 6 „Newcpspem, Magezdncs, Ac. 10 11 8 „Secmtsry's Postage, tc. (2 quarteie) .. 0 „Bslsace forward 13 8 6 378 '9 0 Warsuumu'Eacuca Gomirrzaa. —Mz. D. P. Ablewhite, Coleby, Chairman; Mr. Joseph Grey, Weibourn, Secretary; Mr. Thos. Marriot, Welbourn; Mr. Riclmzd Wetbcmnf Daisy, eeu, , htr. B.Muzlow, Welbouzn; Mz. James PaiTing, Welbouru; Mz. John Hammond. , Welbomn; htz. J. H. Jolly, Leadenham; Mr. Henry Bazwell, Fatback. Mr. John Mkckctt, Csythorpe; hfr. R. Phillips, Welliugore; 1!fr.B.Gsild, Nsvenby; Mi, Joseph Flstters, Boothby; Mr. P. Thornton, Boothbv. Maxaaamezztu, Rasunz Cominxaa. —Mi. Edmund Lepton, Duucton, Chairman; Mr. Eli)ah Reynolds, lfetheringham, Secretary; Mz, William Ms)hem, Rocciugton, Mr. Bsrin Methez(ogham; Mr. John Spencer, Mr. Francis Linton, Dunston; lfr. Charles Bsumber, Scopwick; btz. John Lsvindez, htetharinghem; Mr. Azthm Metheringhsm; Mi. H. W. Bsguley, Danston. Bcauaax Basaeu Couurivua. —Mz. G. PCI)s, Bszdney, Chairman; Mr. Bobt. Chsmberlia, Bsrdney, Secretary; Mz. H. Pszkee, Bsrdney; Mr. Rcwhuul, Barduey; Mr. R. vr H»sewrxxh Bazdneyl ifr. G. Maddfson, Bsrdney; Mr. T. Simpson, Soatbrey; snd Mr. Bartlett, Stsiafield. Sautzoan Bmuca Couurrzn. —Mr. J.Rudkiu, Slesford, Chairman; Mz. C. Sumner, Slesford, Secretsry; Mr. J. Breckenbuzy, Steafmd Mr. W. Bland, Steahudi Battersby, t Mz 6 Slcsford; Mr. J.D. Gmwder, Slesford 1 Mr. J. Simmons, Sissfozd; Er. T-Newton, Swazby; Mr. T. Stsphxb Mz. J. Clsyhm, Wificaghbyt J. Smith, ;Leasiaghsra. R~; bfr. XtnfattJ QO-(j)y~j;JtJV~ (guxrtPjtg Sj,iljrft, NEW SERIES- No. 6.
THE APPROACHING CONGRESS. villsga green. " As he does not say anything about that necessary poetic feature of a village green, a maypole, it is fair to assume HE Congress proceedings will begin on Saturday, May 16th, to dancing. Indeed, another of his T the Co- that he is opposed passage at 11 a.m. , with a meeting of the Central Board of n Broadside" would lead one to believe that his tendencies are Exhibition Manufactures operative Union. At 4 p.m. , an of the decidedly" Low-Church, " for he suggests one member of the Productive Societies will be opened the Mayor of Co-operative by Louth Committee ought, by reason of his eloquence, to have in the Corn Exchange, and Mr. Geo. Hartley will of Lincoln, been "appointed to the Bishopric of Peterborough. " preside over the proceedings. The Exhibition will remain open during the Congress sittings. On Saturday evening there will be in Drill Hall, Mr. Reynolds in aP'ublic Meeting and Concert the "Broadside "tiring, however, is a game at which two can play, if Mr. Benjamin London, and Mr. Brown, Newport, the chair, Jones, they have the necessary ammunition and ordnance. The co-ope- (Mon. ),'will deliver addresses. On Whit-Sunday morning a Special rators returned the 6re, and apparently with so deadly an aim, that Sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. D. Jones, M.A.. B.D., enemy's are for the present silenced, seeing he has issued, afternoon the the guns in Newland Congregational Church, and in the instead of another " Broadside, " a "Notice, " in which he babbles will in the Nave of the Bishop of Lincoln preach on co-operation, of "Easer Eggs" and" John Bull, " but says not a word about The proceedings of the Congress will begin CathedraL proper co-operation. A Louth correspondent aptly terms it a "dying m. when Mr. A. Acland, M. on Whit-Monday, at 10 a. , H. D. P, " but it is hoped there will be more fun yet with the enemy. one of the honorary members of the Central Board, will preside gasp, and deliver the inaugural address. One of, the most~tcresting features of the Congress will follow, namikjf thief. ~entation of Mr. Grigiths reports, that had it not Peu, of an illuminated address, an album and a ~4lug'chain to Mr. the Louth Co-operators present, the authu h E.V. Neale, on his retirement from the ollmjxjjf'Qeuspal Secretary meeting would have summarily expelled the at', of the Co-operative Union. Th rest tl the time the rkstpnsa4c Louth and his friends J. a of the Congress on Monday andt folio g days will be ~-" , discussion of the Rey'ort, mid the j with the CentraJjBoarg'. Cha~"' Up till recently the Louth Society has had the benegt of being and discussion of the Prize Pape M .Mclnnes, gratuitously advertised regularly in the shop and shop window of the Midland Sectional Board, will preside on the second day,~and a vituperative anti-co-operative local barber, whose rabid attacks the evening of Mr. J. Hepworth, Coventry, on the third day. On on Co-operative Stores in general, and on the Louth Store in which Tuesday there will be a Conversazione in the Drill Hall, at particular, were an amusing and interesting feature in "window This will not be open tn Mr. W. Coulson will preside. meeting dressing. " He has now left the town, but his place is in a fair the ublic. Members of our own Societ and others who desire (l LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE Ql7ARTERLY RECORD.
than to migrate to the large towns and swell the ranks of the Collier on bciug asked kindly consented tc give the lectures gzstuitcuxly. Nineteen unemployed or of those who can only get casual work. Ont of members carolled themselves for Lulilcu. After Cbc usual number ol lectures bsd last been given aud Cbc rcgulcticus of the Asscclsilcu ccicplicd with, pzepszsiicns wsrc the Lincoln Society, year, the village members drew $9,764, made for the cxsmiuaiiou, which toot place iu the large Hall snd Ante-rccm, on A'10, and they have yet 985 standing to their credit in it. The the cvcciug of the 26th uli. , when sixteen csudidaiss presented ibcmxclvcs, Mr, extension of co-operation and the increase of allotments in this T. Csssans, M.B.C.S., of Gsiusbcrcugb, being the cxsmiucr. The cxsmlcsiicc, county will undoubtedly do more and more to better the condition uci sn cavy cue, wss divided. into three parts —written, oral, snd stretcher exercise, bui, wc tc state tbsi fcurCccu caught village members. cannot fail to do so. uciwiihsianding iis dilbculCy, szc plczxcd the of our Co-operation indeed cxsmiccr's cyc; twelve ware for "flrst cxsminsiicu, " znd iwc for "flrsi even of itself, for happily, now, in the villages where this Society rc-cxsmlcstlcuiri The distribution cf the ccrilflczicc thus obislucd Cock place in has Branches, it represents not so much the desire of those that the Refreshment-room, on Friday cvcuiug, ApzQ 3rd. Mz. J. W. Codling, have nothing to obtain something', but rather the desire of those the Cbsirmsu of the Educztlcncl Ccmmliicc, brlcfly opened Qic meeting, having~obtained deter- sud Dz. Collier made the presentation lu s manner grsLifyiug tc sll present. who something tangible, are steadfastly The twc members for "first rc-cxsmiusiicu" were Mr. R. Bartholomew znd mined to obtain more. This feeling really prevails everywhere Mr. E. W. Scudzll; the others for "flrxt" examination were Mcxnx. J. E. throughout the Society; the majority of our members are Sicuzicn, G. W. Relics, A. Briggx, W. Hcwscn, C. Thursby, G. E. Beck, I. permeated by it, but they are quiet, and therefore appear less W. Tcwlcz, F. W. Sculicn, T. Codling, G. Marti, G. Reynolds, znd G. Hcsliby. numerous sometimes than the croakers who are always prophesy- After the cszilflcztcs bxd bccu presented, the Cbslrmsu, in felicitous terms, cn behalf of Cbc members pzcccut, presented the worthy doctor with s waSuug stick, ing doleful things, and trying to make themselves and others cs x ccnuccilug link bciwccu himself snd Cbc members cf the Ambulance Class. believe they will turn out true. There would be no danger of The dccicr having rcpllel, the company then ssi down tc s coffee suppers sxlil Qtus damage by fire at any of our Stores if all the cold water thrown an ended s pleasant evening. any new step in co-operation could be concentrated in a stream where the fire breaks out. on the place THE MOST CO-OPERATIVE TOWN IN THE WORLD. OR ycszc Oldham bss been hell up ss. the great autliypc of co-cpczstlcn. Bai F-jusiisc compels ms Cc clxiin for li ibc title of being the most co-cpciaiivc EMPLOYES ANNUAL OUTING. town in the world. Oldham folks src tcc modest Cc clslrc 4bis fcr Chcmsclvcs; fcr they bsvc been so cficu reproved that they bsvc gci into the habit of MEETING of Lbc cmplcycs tc cons. dcz aud dec(dc upon the preliminary xsylcg, " Well, we won't call ourselves ' cc-cpczstivcy " Bui, like Galileo, czzcugcmsui» for ibis holiday was held in the Cc-operative Hall, on Thursdsy, ikey sdd, ' We A src right sll the same. " Look st their condition. They src fully with gib, in the evening, at half. psst seven o'clock. There wszc 120 cquippsd April cmplcyhs siczcs for the supply of sll their daily wsuis. They bsvc ihsiz educational depart- present, aud the President of the Society wsc supported on the plstfcnu mast by mcuts cn s scale that is usually cxllcd princely. Bui ii ls nct princely, fcr that cf Chc members of the Ccmmittcc. In opening the meeting hfz. Bsnrcr. ps said cfisn means being generous with other pccplc's money. Thhy are muniflccni with the members of the Society ai the lax i L)rmrtcrly Meeting bad acted very generously their czn money; aud ibis muulflccncc sheds both lustre aud glory on the intel- Lc the cmplcyhs in granting ibcm z dsy's holiday, for which their wages would noi lectual cspaciiy xud clear-bczdcil sentiment cf Oldham. They bsvc their corn mill. be stopped, snd in cmpowcring the Committee besides tc give cscb eeplcyh hs. 6d. They supply cvcrybcdy with s house wbc wsuis one, snd cnccursgc everybody towards the czpcnscs of an excursion Lc they might select. tc someplace (Applause). save money tc gci it. They have their insurance fsdcrzticn prcvcni the insur- Hc hoped they would sll speak their minds freely, and corns ic s decision entirely tc ance ring plundering them; aud s ccitcu buyiug company tc defend them against csiisfscicryto themselves as ic where they would sud, having done after- gc, xo, the buccaneering tccdcucics of Livczpccl speculators. have their wards from their number s mall committee tc csny cui the srmugcmcnis. Fisally, they cle» eight cr nine mflticux xicrflug invested in spinning mille; snd these various Those wbo did nc4 the trip, hc might tell them, would uci rcccivc the 3s. 6d. sll gc by cuiczpzlxcs are wczkcd in accordance with the principles laid down zdvccs4cs (Laughter). The Committee thought scmcplscc on the Liucclnsbirc coastmight be by of cc-opcrsilcn over sixty years sgc. Owing to cur bsviug dcgcncrstcd into scctism, cclccicd, bui they were there Lc bcsz the cmplcyhs' cwu views, sud tc help them to we have of laic years refused ic take credit for all these rccul4s the best of their power in csnyiug ibcm ouk (Applause). of co-cpczstica. — ifr. B.Jcxcs's riddysss Lc ihs Ipnsich Cczfrsss. The Szcaxxszz (Mr. Mcfuncs) said Cbc Committee wished Chat some place should be chosen, the fare tc wldch would nct bc sc cxpcusivc sx tc shut cut tbcxc of the hmployfis wbc rcccivc small wages, from going by the trip. They did nct suggest sny plscs in particular. THE ARTFULNESS OF CAPITAL. Mr. Hscpwzcx (Lxilcr's workshop) asked if sll cmplcyhx would be paid? Cnhicusz: Ycs. L.PITAL, in iis artful moments, employe the scduciicu snd illasicn of poetry Thc ic bids from ycu iic sdvsuisgcs, sud reconcile lifz. Ress, izc (Ccuizxl Grocery) proposed s trip train to C labour tc having none. It by Gsiusbczcugb, sud tells ycui— sicsmcz zlcug the Trent snd Humbcr all the cm- thence by to Spurn sud back; s A little rest, ~ little play plcyhs would then be together cud could enjoy themselves. They would have the Oi sccshics on s ssccssr dsy, cpricn of leaving ibc best zud sisyiug s fcw hours in Hull, or of proceeding Co Zs sll the pmxd ssd mishiy have " Spurn. nshnsz ihs sssdls szd the Sssvs, Mr, Bxzcxzuzz (Central Bikcry) scccudcd the proposed trip Co Spurn. Don't ycu believe it. The prcud aud migbiyhsvc suusbluscvcry day, While Mr. Wiixziiccou (Librarian), la suppcriiug the proposition, said ibc cating would ycu toil aud ills they rcjcicc sud live. Wbcu the season is Lcc hci they tate their bc c very cnjcysble one. pulmxu cars down tc the ccclcz ccssic. When the weather is inclcmcut ycu meet lifr. Hxspwzcx proposed s trip tc Bclvcir Castle, which place wss within easy them in their yacbis xsiliug ruder the Mediterranean suu. Be nct dcccivcd i the reach, zud cffczcd many ztirccilcns Cc slgbisccrs; Mr. Rcius (Offlcc) sccoudcd this. "pzcud sud mighty" have s good time of ii "between Cbc czellc aud the grave, " hfr. htcczz (High-sizcsi Brcach) suggested Clccibczpcs, bui received nc xuppczi. sud if co operators look Lethe wczkxbcp they can have s gccd time toe. Ycu will Mr. Hshhsz (Central Grocery) said places near si baud, each ss those on the hear people ssy it is uci gccd ic iuczcssc the wcrlnusu's income, hc will nci pat it Liucclnsblrc coast, could be vlclicd st any time, as there were uumcrcus balf-day trips Cc a gccd use. Well, if bc docs not, whose business is tbatf Is it nct bis own tc thcmtbc summer through. Five years ago the smplcyhs meat to Yzrmcuih, when mousy f Hxs bc nci esrucd ii '2 Dc ycu gc ic tbc employer and xzy, Yoa must the zQcwsmcc wzs uci sc much ss ss. 6d., snd hcpzcpcscdthat Yszmcucb be again ucc be allowed io gci richer —it is nci good for ycu —ycu will spend it in visited. (Ayylsiec). hfr. hlixi. sex(Ccnizcl Grocery) ascended Yarmcuib. vanity, in sclflsbucxs, in sensualism; ss bc commonly dues zt flzci, when s msn of Mr. Fzzzstm pmpcscd Buxicn —a pretty place, in the very bcsri cf gocd natural small means becomes rich. Give the workman bis chance of riches, aad hc will scenery, snd wRbin easy reach, sud this Mz. Jxcxscx ('ianoriug Dcpszlxucui) cvcutusfly pui it Cc as gccd csc sx bis master. If cc-cpczsiozx will pat tbcu' mighty xccoudcd. czgsuisailcn ic the service of labour, tbsir rcputstlon wlfl exceed Chat of sll other Mr. Wnixuczroz szkul, scald s landing be cffcctcd st Spurn Point f io which parties. —Ifr. G. J. Ifoifcchc's spszch ai Bcuicz Delucal, quezciou Mz. Hxsxhzz (ccmmiiicc}, wba lc sppcafcd bsd once tried Lbc cxpcrimcut, rspllel giving his Cupsricaruhwbtdh wss uci succursgiug. Voting wss then tslum by shoe of bands, wish the following result i—Buxicn, I; Yszmcuib, 48 Bclvcir, 34; 'Spurn; 6. Buzion arid' Spurn having thus. been struck THE EARS —CAUTIONS AND PRECAUTIONS. Lbc Cmiczix, bsfczc putriug. tbo srifuz iwo places tbc cui, sgsm io vote, suggested EVER wear cotton in the ears if they arc discharging pus. discusslcu upon exch. In this Mr. Tdwtza(Educsiionsl Mr. Cciumirisc), Rozza Ncvcr drop znyiblug into Cbc csr uulcsx ii bss been previously cud ctbcrs took pzzt, cnuouzsQng, smohg other pmticul'szs, the prices of wanuel. (Oftlcc), Never attempt Lo apply a poultice cc the inside of the canal of Cbc sdmissicu Lc Bclvcir Castle zud the vsriicax places si chick dinner or tca could be csr. Neve uss anything bui s syzingc and warm water for cleansing the csr fzcm obtained at Bclvcir, But tssfczd, snd WccMChczpc. pin. hfcxsrs. Bardwick zud Hsflsm were then appointed, tcllczs, sad the viric wss taken Never xtrSic m bcx s child's csz i this bsx been known tc mptms ibc dram-head with tbc following result: —Bclvoir 58, Ysrmcuib 40. The Cmxxsini boPel Chc sud cause incursblc deafness. minority wculil sll join the majority in going Cc Bclvciz, snd tbczcugbly enjoy Never wci Lbc hair if vcu have any tendency to dczfueu; wen au cQ.Qlk themselves. when bstblug, sud zcfzsiu from diving. committee werc elected io mate the srrsngcmsntsi —Mr. The fcllcwiug F. Never scratch the cars with anything bui the flcgczs if n (Cssblcz); Mr. Hsrilwick (Tailer's Worksbcp), Mr. I"ziskucy (Ccnbsl they itch. Do nci usc ' the bczd of s plu, bslr pius, ycucll ilps, cz anything cf that 3'fz. (Central Grocery), ifz. Bmmmlii (Ripen Si. Brsucb), hfz. naimc. Grcxxnyj, Hsllzm Ncvsz lct tbc feet become sold zud Camp, or sii with the Wsznxr-(hfatzhezy, Dcpsrtmcut), Mz. Johnson (hBll), hir. Watson (Drapery DcpsrC- back towards Cbc window, as ibcsc 4biugx tend ic aggravate any existing hardness of hearing. merit}; hfx,;Pxgiy'rum (Stables). Never milk, put fai, cz auy oily substance into the csx for the zzlicf cf pain, foz It wzs zusust'-h}CL'zu'uh unanimously, tbst the cating be in Jane. an s date Cc bs flxcd ikey soon become rancid and tsud tc inciic iuflsmmsricn. Simple wana water vriQ by tbc CcmmiEsi&:sf wfrich Mz. Stcphcuscu wss sppclutcd secretary, aud the meet- answer Cbc '-", '' "ii puzpcss better tbsn anything else. hsg thea elis'uzL, . Never be slanncd if s Qviug. insect cuicrz the csr. Pcuziug wmm water iu the canal will Bmwn ii, when it will gcucrslly come to the smfscc and cxncxu besusxilixlx y rcmcvel by the flugczs. A fcw pufls of icbsccc szackc blown iuto ths sxr AMBULANCE CLASS. stupefy the mccci. sriQ HIS vtzxs m hald under. Cho suspfccx thc Educaiicnal Ccmmittm aud in ccu- Ncvcr meddle with the cf csr if s foreign body, xucb xx a bead, buitcu, or aced zcciicn with tbc S&fobn'z Ambulance Aeeeaticn, S4. John'x-gsis, Clczkcn- cucczs it; leave it absclutcly I alcnc, but bsvc c physician s4isud io Ik Mezz well, Lmulon. Last Dcssmbcz iha Comumtco aunounccil tbst ikey bsd nssdz damage bss been Bone by injudicious ahicmyts ai the rixac4icn cf fcz. ctssu a fcmign body anngszsczM s Lo bs held in ths Obh ~zcouh luul Dr, J. T. Quoi ccukl ever come frmn xLs prcxsucs ia tbs ssr.—Hczffh szd Jfcvzc. 10 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QVIftRTERLY RECORD.
OW many of those happy Co-operators wbo sre looking forward to Congress H week snd Lincoln, have any ides of the physical aspect of that famous old city? Very few, I think. Somehow, even the sound of the word Iincolnshire seems to bring before one'a mental vision s picture of fist green fields, stretohing fram horizon to horizon, snd intersected by black sluggish dykes, looking not unlike the lines on s msp, snd serving much the same purpose —of rows, snd yet again rows of tall melancholy sentinel-like poplars —scorning like vegetable patricians to bend to the water snd soil that nourishes them, and se a sort of balance to the whole, s stolid four-legged population of fat unwieldy sheep, whose geaersl appearance is enough to make unfortunate people of the Jack Sprat type tarn pale „(p at the anticipation of dinner. And yct, how incorrect this mental picture is, at least ss regards s great portion of the county. In the west is a lovely undnlsting country, sometlung, perhaps, like Mrc. Browning'c descripbon m Aurora Leigh. f fi » dll the fields are tied up fest with hedges —nosegay She. The hills are crumpled v I m loins, the !sins ortcrres, " snd yet beautiful for sll its lack of grandeur, and v VI p p sweetly restful to eyes tired of the smoke snd grimiueas of town. ''f:1»I' s , But Lincoln is in the east, and. Lincoln also is not iu the least Dutch-like in ap ;anal is gut about with dykee after I '. „:&': i~Bi IT',, 'Qieddntrsayi Bba qaeern ft . .", , „';!z ~~A~ : $."'- ' sa4 stnn lani, osnn, &, ,'!; ifhf fififciiy i i ~ jff uouucciucut half British, 4»iflioiuau as it ii. Ori inallv, tbe word ivi» I;in lcm, fiona lie. r&r lg&i, a pool, cud du c, a hill lortrc-', c usmc we rind descriptive euougli ii »c &cud near Braifciil pool coil look up ct tiie grim csrtle wall for above uz. Iii zfiix ccic froiu tb. l stiu c louie, a col ny. » word of prouil di tin»noir, &us&km f] Lincoln cc a plzcc oi r as iiupcri. ,inc duriug ihc Roman ocoupatiou of Bnicin. A cubic old citv, ol,lcr than hivtoiy; old when those mighty civilizcrc the Bomsnc nnmzl it to new dfgufty snd beauty fn tbn fhsst ke 4~x wss sut, and the Roman gaBeys mov'ed ggae ff'm ' " albeit newly NXIO years have psseedi arid fifa.yjdtslf, ' ' of Borne depsrkid. But crea after the grntgds'gtb*'fff ttsfg& , LINCOLN CATHEDRAL.
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' ' "Joust of Isa Xfssg, ssfut waz seized and taken ttt, , ff.4hii''~ sent &sky, tha .fhfsffb. vstdt bssisgbd the Dauphin of France, snd wss gallantly held for King John by s woman —the Sheriff of the County, Nicolas de Csmviee. The invaders were dissetrousty defeated by the Earl of Pembroke st the battle of the "Fair st Lincoln. " With the seven- teenth century the miBitsry history of the Castle ended. Comparatively little uow remains of the old stroagbold, yet enough is still stand. ing to show that it must have been of immense importance and size during the many centuries it zafegasrded the city. The walls sre almost intact, snd sunouud between six snd seven acres of ground. If any place by reason of its associations msy be esiil to be haunted, . urc!If.iuco!u Castle po c c that unenviable notoricti. , for within ii k ip. iu z iio circa „rcv iaid, , ie bur&»d iucuy of those unhappy pn.-oo.- who cud icu ili. pcualO f iiieir comes der&&is r. c dsyz cf public execution. Ou the l ai fic.t of another tov;er at tlie uorib-cast corner of the ivsec these gruesoiiie cpccisclc. used to icke place. To the riglit of ti e cast nc, and tie only cnircucc now rcmainiog, there i built into tlic walls s vers lovelv onel wiudow iak u icr u 4&urer pre»«rvati u from tbe rains of c fine pa!acc lower d &»u rbe lull. once the residence of John of Ccunt. Cunou:ii eu u«h ihc wake of tce Castle enclose ib" Courry B*Bcnd Assi» Courts, snd 'ircngely out of pisce tl c-e taviclccs modern builiiiugc look beside tbc zriui bcucrcd .iormsn v'cfi «ud ioivei-. Jluch more iu hsriu iny with their peaceful, venerable «ge are tbc pleasant sun 4iuy terrace arden some nxiurc-lcviu* coul» 4»vc ordamol cbsll beautify the &utcrioi. Sormho». one fools ti ut r4c giiiu obl wall; encircle the dear ohi-fashioned fiowcrs and rhrubs loviogly uoiv that tbcv have no gallant lords and fcir ladies io protect. Leaving the Cavil», ivc rind oumlvcs opposite another old gate&ray, the beautiful Exchequer- aie. cl.icf currcuc* to the 5'imcicr Close, and passing tbroug4 ii arches wehave the nuc i view of inc majc-tic we t front of tbc Cathedral NEWLAND CONGREGATIONAL Bany people call this facade disappointiug. Certainly it has not the exquisite grace and beauty possessed by the west front of peterborough. The front of Lincoln v''» hfiuztcr is a very (;fI.V'ARE, .»Er". f'ICE. 1VHI1'-SL JV'I'JmII, incongruous mixture of styles, but to anyone save s very rabid Io go stickler for the unities, ite incongraity has s certain charm. With s little knowledge of ambitectme usa ean eountBs years, and almost nag its history, snd it is bn- PeeacHee: pomdble REF. j. D. jONES, M.A., E~. to help admtHag the nasssrfmMy eklffat way is which the Nonaaa aad later stybn sre bleuded togettun without altering the diatinotive featums of eaefu LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
adjecrive beautiful csn hardly be applied to this west front of Lincoln, if, by uniquely lovely, sud of great historic interest. Wit)rin its wsUe have been held word, we mean perfectly harmonious ss weU, yet its proportions are so aaperb, several Parliaments. It bac been s temporary Assize Courts, snd daring Uw fsmoas itc outlines so digai6cd, that the epeotstor is quite sc mach imprecexl by its Pilgrimage of Grace, it nsrnwly escaped becoming s place of massacre. mending majesty ss by the mora ornate loveliness snd grace of peterborough. Very few young people miss climbing the Central Tower for s peep of the sunoand- Ixe mass, however, Lincoln Minster is superbly bsaatifuL Moreover, itcpoeition ing countrv, but it is s journey no person like Hamlet, "fst snd scant of breath, " , aique. No other Cathedral in England (Durham not excepted) osn rival ibe should undertake. There are two belting places on the wsy, however, the slosh oty of itc site. For the great north country cathedral holds aloof fmm the town chamber, sud the home of Greet Tom, who hss the honour of beiag the Sfth in shw i sort of haughty seclusion, but Isncoln bhnstcr is pert of the city, it stands on of English church bells. From the top of the tower a msgnigcent view is obtsincsL crest of the hill snd crowns the city, sml a mon beaatifal diadem osa hardly be The Fen coantry right away to the ses stntches st oae's feet like s msp. For miles gin ed. the historic Ermine 8treeC of the Romans msy be seen trsciug sway north msi , he Srst stone wss laid about the year 1080 by s certain Remegius of Fescsmp, couth like s narrow ribbon. On s clear dsy Newark may be discened. snd tbirty- indly and enerzetio. il somewhat uascnpaloas sdhennt of William the 6ve miles sway the beautiful tower of Boston Paris Church, knomx by the iqueror. The Chmoh was nsdy for sonseoration m Msy, 1092, but Bcmegias, hideous local name of Boston Stamp. ortunstely, did not Uve to see thc oensnony. He wss buried with great pomp in St. Botolph'c town I —"far over lcogucc of laud ead fccgucc of cca loo4 forth new edi6ce, and the tsclx of enlarging snd beautifying hic work devolved upon iic noble Cower. " , sucoscsore ia the 8ee. Only the central srobee of the west frost, snd pmt he Srat bsy of the Neve sn left of the original church. Bishop Bloat, snd psr- Not more noble, however, then the tower upon which we stand. Lincoln rood : uhnly his saooeesor Alezander tbe Msgnigcent, greatly added to the work. This tower hss no equal for beauty in sU England. The 6nest central tower in the icier prelate raised the west towers as high ss the belfry stories, snd is oleo world many do not hesitate to osU it, not without grounds for the assertion, how- iwponsible fm' the doorway in the west front. But to Hugh of Avalon —Saint ever extravagant such praise msy seem. Other towers sre ss besutifal in detail, Hugh, who received the See in 1186,belongs the credit of enlarging the charch to ite more beautiful even —one thinks of Giotto'c Campanile —"Tkc Iily of Florcscc, p"csent majestic proportions, in fact of almost entirely rebuilding it after it hsd, bfoxcomisg in Crone. " Very few hold such s ms)aetio snd commending position. l mgely enough, been almost destroyed by sn earthquake. To St. Hugh, Lincoln None stand in more perfeot snd hsrmoaioue relation to s greet mess of lower baild- w the eastern transept, pert of the great transept, snd the choir. Hugh of ingc than does this peerless tower of Lincoln to the great double erose it dominates. , ,ilc, WiUism of Blois, snd tbst sturdiest snd best of ecclesiastics. Robert Qrosietecte On the couth side of the Minvter sre the ruins of s Sns palace, onoe the resideaes Qrocstbte, worthily contributed to the work of enlarging snd beautifying snd ra- of her bishops. d beautiful snd stately buiriing it mash have been, judging from tbe iding that which wse to make the church on the hill the fairest in the eastern fragments ctrl remaining. Splendidly situated too, on a sort of terrace overlooking mties. the hillside. Like "fair" bfelrose, these ruins look best by moonlight. Then vo record of Lincoln bfinster, or indeed of Lincoln oily, would be complete with. standing in the ivy-gmwn roo6ess bsnqucrinc roora it is easy enough to conjure up , some mention, however brief, of the most famous and most inlenating of hcr the part glories of the stately home of so many princes of the Church —frost ihopc. Robert Qrosseteste'c name is well known to students of early English Chessy, and Bloei, asd Hugh of sainted memory, to Wolsey, proudest snd most irsture, snd it is held in pmud remembrance by the ciYisene of Liacoin. They iU-feted of them eU. Nor should we «eel surpris io cee advancing through tbxrt not iozget hie gsUsnt sad succesiful struggle against the wmporsl power of the broken archway lovely snd frail Queen Katharine Howsnl tripping with discretely pe. In matters spiritual be wss s datiful son of the Holy See, but he wss a quiet footsteps to ~ stolen love tryst with Sir Thomas Culpepper, while the royal ' sve and patriotic Englishman ss well, snd he would not bnok the iaterferesoe of Ulaebesrd inside sttemstely frightens end Swtere poor Bishop Longlsnd according me in the matter of inductiag foreign priests into the livings he thought rightly se his gouty legs sre free from or convulsed with psio. iosgh his own countrymen should occupy. 8o he sturdily resisted the eSoris of It is s comfort to be able to record the fact ibst Lincoln, although greatly riw Holiness to goven Iinootn from beautiful and far-oS dvignon, and st lect wss moderniced, hss eiiU muoh of her old-time architecture remaining. On the left of solemnly azawmmunfceted for s point b)snk refusal to give to sn Italian boy one of Strait 8treet {Shsit in the sense of nsrmw or congned) stands the famous Jews hoses, :bs moaC impozlant livings in his See. Tnth, to ssy, this swfel anathema troubled one of the ofdesLinbsbttsd hoasec iu Greet Britain —once the residence of oae, ,he good Bishop very Utile, or not at sU. He oslmly went oa his wsy building and Belsset, sn unfortunate Jewesc, who wss hung in the time of Edward I., on s x.»caching, secure in the approval of his own conscience sud in tbe love and nspeot ohsrgeol tampering with tbe King's coin. The doorway of this house, with its his people. musd arches snd carved capitals, is interesting se s 6ne specimen of Transition To drosie folk co bcocs by foirscwc Norman work. One of the most iswresting monuments of mediwvsl times is tbe By gaod csaiwptc this woc bi ~ bscysccic i beautiful Gate hoses, knows sc the Stooebow, which consists of s central arch, BaC it iccrc asy pcrcoxw obciineC, Ssnked by towers, with s postern wsy an either side. The top ie battlemented, snd Cybat co bc were of higb or loio rcicc, the interior, s Sne old room, used ss s Coanoil Chamber, contains some interesting Hiw would bc csubbc sharply for ibc assoc. royal portraits. d bccxcrpriwt, I none, ther xcw4r aos ic. One relic of the fsr-oS psst that could tell s wondrous story if its won old stones He wop red ofter so poeipc osd rcecrcscc, were able to speali, is the so-csUed Newport hrch, which crosses the vig Hernrinis Ne iscicd hfw o xpiccd cosccicscc, at the norihem limit of the city. It is tbe Roman North Gate of Lincoln, snd Uie Bst Cbrlxrcx lore, asd hic ripocftcc ncilve only one of itc kind standing in sU Qrest Britain. A venerable sge-worn memento of He Cozghc, bsi fiivC bc followed ii bmwcfvc. the mighty conqueron. But, indeed, the Roman psst is very neat one in Limxdn, pne csn almost picture him —s tsU and digniged msn, walking about fragments of work built nearly 2,000 years ago emp up everywhere. the aisles of A 'oe yet unfiniched bUncter with s stern word of disapproval for sU idlers regard for space forbids more then s mention of some of the records of tbe at middle The Sinoil once the mediwvsl 'ie sacred worii, buC ss he passes on tbe severity of hie face softeniag into sadden ages. Dyke, most oi the city, the qnsint snd eztremely old churches of St. bisry-le-Wigford, sud Peter-st-Gowts. veetnees sc he marks a task well done, snd stops to give a kindly word of St. The lovely praise Uffle condait of tbe Grey Friars, John of Gaunt's Aaron Jew's house od encomsgement to perhspe same timid. yet ardent workman who hss carven Palace, the on a Steep.hiU, snd sU that is left ol the once famous crticulsrly lovely flower in stone or marble, or to prowl builder who church of St. Beaedict —s very s bee over- ezqulsite ome some technical dUUculty in the zecoustroction of the rood tower. chancel snd side cbspeL Every ysni of the city is interesting. The streets sre redolent of memoriee of those whose names in history sze famtUsr In l 262, the so-csUed Angel Choir wsi completed, snd on St. Faith'e dsy in that ss to "esr Lincoln held high festival. Her King wsc present, snd more us ss household words. One dreams of Stephen of sorrowful memory, snd his riva notabilities than the hwi ever gathered within her wsUs before for the elder of Empress ifstilds, of King John, snd WiUism the Lion of Scotland, of Eleanor perhspi, her saints. Hugh the cud vss taken from his old reiting piece to bc reburie with miriuevsl Faithful, Henry of Bolingoroke, the wise snd prudent son of s fsmoas pomp sud lather. "Poet Dawn" nnigsiSoenoe vrittrin that recently completed snd peerlessly beautiful Choir. Perhaps tbe of the hiuuwlf feasted in John of Gaunt's Palace downbiU, or said hic in the fait church By the eud of the next century the church bsd assumed the proportions that prayers that wss to zeceive the it msriyied of the Utxte whose '.sc to-dsy, snd (when due sUowsnoe is made for the ravages of time, snd the still body Hugh, pretty story he hss put into the mourii of dainty M sdsme Eglantine, the Priorece- wester rsvsges of the Puritsus snd modern iconoclssts) bore much the came appear- inoe. It is genersUyooaecdcdtbst the south and east sides of Lincoln Minster ded in a Cowbc of warbfc cnsicc clccrc ze more beautiful than the north and west sides, seen either in detail or in the Esclcccs they hie licrl body nccric, oww. blush the best view of the ohurch, as s whale, is seen from the bUnstsr Green. Tbcrc bc ic sow, God Live iw for to wcctc. pxe whole of the east front lies befon tha spectator, tbe glorious window, pmely Mxzz C. Sxzzx, bl anchcstar. -eometricsl in cbsnobx, aud the beautiful pianscted gsbles. To tbe right ctrecoh be airy buttresces of tbe Cbsptm-house. On Qw left. along the riobfydeeorsted oath side, csn be seen the Bishop's penh, s ricb jewel of deeonthre art. Fmtbm ough etiU, the strangely named, but lovely Qslilec Pmeb (probably s eorrupiioa of sUery), sn offchoot of the greet south tnwuwpt, which towers above, beariog within its 6ne gable that loveliest snd most fairy-tike of vrindows kaown ae the Bishop' s LIST OF NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS TAKEN Eye. The beauty of this window csn best be seen, of coarse, fmm the interior. It bsc the appearance of s pattern ol the most delicate lass mxk petriSed into stone, IN THE READING ROOM. snd gw effect is enhanced by the richly-glowing colours of the old glass with wbioh it is SUwi in. The corresponding window in the norih transept is also eziremely DAIl Y PAPERS.—Standard, Daily News, DsUy Chronicle, Daily Telegraph, Pall bfsU Qszette, Msnchevter Gusrilian, llianohccter Exsminm, 'Leeds Mercury„ Mwrt of Uw old monuments sud shrines were sadly mutilated by the eohhere of ShetUeld Independent, The Stm, Nottbxgham Post, bfsnchester Evening'Newii, Sw Parlismeat, though one is glad to think they sre not responsible for sU tha snd The Daily Graphic. lwwsge dose. Heuxy the Eighth, of blessed memory, wss s feUow siauer, aml s woven Idunfn, rieh with the offerings of generations of worshippers to the WEEKLY PAPEBS.—Lincoln Gazette, Lincolnshirc Chmnicle, Boston shrine Gusrdisu, of her nisus xtcwi not Ukeiy to escape hie covetous eyes. Henxy, being defender of Nottinghsmshire Guardian, Honcsstle News, Spslding Free Presa, Newark Adverricer, ihe Faith, thought he had a right to the treasures of the FsUh, for he de- Isle of Axholme and Gsiasborough News, Slesfoni Gazette, moUched Sn~%+abrinn remonelessly, siul made og wiib sn immense treacan Qrsntbam Journal, Exchange and Mart, The Spectator, Stamford ltfercmy, CssseU's gold, silver, sn pnwious stones. Sstsrdsy Jou'mal, Newcastle Chronicle, Leeds Mercury, Public Opinion, snd The eastern tremsSxbwmtshw tbe tomb of Cstherine Swynfonl, third wife o!John Compentive News. if Gaunt, the wfilowar of Chssoer's "Deth of Blsnncbe, the Duohesse, " snd Shakespeare'e «Tqme-honoared " ILLUSTRATED PAPERS.—The Graphic, Engineer, Building News, Figaro, Lsncsetm. Close beside Cslhexine sleeps The Queen, Punch, hm daughter, ~Joss, Comrina of Westmorland. Judy, Fun„snd tbe IUmtrsted London News. Mush of interest to tbe antiquarian may bc foand in the oloistcrs, relies many MAGAZINES. —Iaicme Hoar, CseseU's Family b4gszine, Chsmbcn's Journal, if Roman and Medbanl Lhwohi, ami the Lilzsry, ie wall worth a visit, if only that Good Words, New Review, Harper's bicgazine, Fortnightly Beriew, The Centmy, one may see the bmi of the foarexisUng eonfn of Maga'a Chcata. - English IUnstraied Magazine, Harper's Yoang People, N'neteeaih Century, and Like a rich casket beside a ahriae stsxxhc Sie Chapter-hone, a libUe baihUug AU The Year Boand. 12 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QIIARTERLY RECORD
e o-o erative o esa e ocie::„ LIMITED. Central Offices —1, BALLOON STREET, MANCHESTER. Branches —NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE and LONDON.
The Co-operative Wholesale is Society a federation of nearly 1,000 Retail Co-operative Societies, repre; 750,000 individual members. Its Share, Loan, aud Reserved Capital amount to One and a Half Millions St carries on the trade It of Wholesale Dealers, Manufacturers, Bankers, Shippers, dj'oc. , and does an annual b: of XS,000,000. The following are goods its chidf productions, and they can be purchased through any Co-op. Society. CO-OPERATIVE PRODUCTION&:— BOOTS AND SHOES. The Society manufactures annually, at its Leicester and Heckmondwike Works, over One Million Pairs "Whestsheaf" Brand of Boots and Shoes. These Boots are made from the very best materials, and for dur BISCUITS, SWEETS, Bcc. The productions of the Crumpsall Works have so rapidly grown in favour, that in order to meet the inc:" demand the manufacturing capacity of the Works has recently been doubled. All the principal kinds of B: sre made, snd special attention is given to the purity and excellence of the materials used. Boiled Sweets, snd Marmalade also form an important part of the production of these Works. WOOLLEN S. The Society's Mills st Batley, Yorkshire, sre replete with the most'mo'dern machinery, and there are now: manufactured some of the choicest patterns in Fancy Worsted Trousermgs and Tweeds, also Indigo Blue READY-MADE Men' Boy' Youth' GLOTHING. s, s, s, snd Juvemle Suits are made up in s.variety of styles snd qualities at the Lect Batley Factories. Bespoke orders are attended to with accuracy and despatch, and correctly fitting garments may be relied u ' . SOAP, Dec. The Soap manufactured at the durham Works is noted for its genuine honest article. D Soa qualities, the sim heing to turn out p, Blaek Lead, and sundry goods are made at the Crumpsall Works. An analysis p places it in s most favourable position in comparison with that of other makers. TEA, COFFEE, AND GOGOA DEPARTMENT, LONDON AII kinds of Teas, Mixed, Packet, and in Original Packages. Rehahle and of the best 36-' "ttrdeststtest Brsod. " quslitiesd CofFee Cosset —pore d eestrsted. tti trios of Coors, de. ajtrjj» Radiheh'4 Hljth Btddddt jtdtdI'Itdlvddd ~~ 8tdddjt, , '4jddttbd. THE LINCOLN EQUITABLE CO-OPERATIYE INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, CENTRAL PRKMISES.
Silver Street Front.
I— Free School Lane Front. "SLOM BUT SURE." "UNION IS STRENGTH-"
ginMIn ~quiizlblf ~6-gyfi'zitpf glttfitt5tfizI $5fifiiI Xitltt«fi ESTABLISHED 1801.
PiEGISTEPiED UA'DER TIIE INDUSTRIAL /AD PROV1DEET SOCIET1ES' ACT.
OELIECTS OF THE SOCIETY.—First, It provides its Members and the General Public with Bread, Flour, Grocery, Provisions, Drapery, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Butchers' Meat, Coals, Crockery, Hardware, Furniture, &c.
Second, It seeks the domestic, social, and intellectual advancement of its Members.
Annual Business over Z147,000. Number of Members, 6,690. Share Capital, 871,762 16s. 9d..
Bssasus —THE LINCOLN AND LINDSEY BANKING COMPANY, Ltsfrrnn.
The REPORT tttI. RAI, ARTCC SiXKET fOr the 119th Quarger- ZNDZD rIULY 1st, 1891.
Groaery. Drapery. Boots n Shoes. Tailoring. Pornislung. TotaL Purchases from the Co-operative Wholesale Society ...... 85,465 X1,829 8276 4547 S8,440
from other Co-operative Sources. ... 50 264 521 277 67 1,199
Value of Goods produced by this Society and grown 818,004.
Animals Slaughtered during the Quarter: —Beasts 181; Sheep 828; Pigs 251; Calves 22; Lambs 26; Total 758.
Central Stores and 081ccs—SILVEB STREET ARD FREE SCHOOL LAKE, LIKCOLK. Ko. 1 Branch —BBACEBRIDGE. Ko. 8 Branch —SAXILBY. — — BURTOK ROAD, LIRCOLR. ~ l 9 rr BAGGEHOLKE BOAD, LIKCOLK.
—SHAKESPEARE STREET, LIKCOLK. 10 n —KEWLAKD STREET WEST, LIKCOLK. — 4 „—RIPOK STBEET, LIKCOLK. 11 re BARDKEY. 5 —WELBOURK. 19 „—KORTH STREET, HORKCASTLE. —KZTHERIRGHAK. s, 18 rr —SOUTH STRI6ETr SLZAPORD.
—Gt. RORTHERR TZBB., LIKCOLR. 14 rr —IXIGH STBEET LIKCOLK
The ANAL MKKTIN6 will be held. in the Large Hall, on Monday Evening, August 3rd, 189i, The Chair to be taken by the Pretsirlente at 7-80 p.in. PROGRAMME OF BUSINESS.
' l. "shastra af the last Bmrtertr liha af fast Eon~, tfsethrg. " 6. "ffassftmthsm farBgseatmnslZommlttm, " "Sgmhafan of Eew tfemheiar "Blesthm of 6. presiilent," Treasurer, Sgazeterr, thme S. "The Balance Sheet snit Bspmt. i' en auditor. u nssitore' Report' 7. "Snr other Bnsinessis
* ' " B*'fee Lincoln Equitable Co-operative Industrial Society, Limited.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. .WM, REYNOLDS, President ...... 95 'Mr. JOSEPH bfABTIN ...... SS Mr. W. B. HOWARD 'Mr. GEORGE HARTLEY, Treasurer...... 95 'Ifr. EDWARD LASCELLES ...... 96 iKr. J.GAMBLE. ... 96 'rfr. DUNCAN MoINNES, Seorotsry ...... 96 Mr. J.J. KERSHAW...... Sf Mr. J. W. CODLING 'Ifr. WM. COULSON ...... 95 bfr. J. BROADBERBY...... 96 Aaarmss —'bfr. QEORGE BICHARDSON, Mr. JAS. ORANGE. Cmarss —lKr. PBED STEPHENSON. The Sgures oner the names iudieste the aamba of Committee Meetings stteadod; 96 having been held. Those marked ' retire bat sre eligible for ro-elootioa. The following sre aomiustel for President: —tfr. J. BROADBERRY sad Ifr. J. J. KERSHAW. Committee: —lKr. W. COULSON, Mr. W. HEWSON, 6Ir. E. LASCELLES, Mr. Q. LEWIS, Mr. J. MARTIN, bfr. W. REYNOLDS, bfr. G. SHARPS, Mr. If. SbfALLER, Mr. G. TEMPLE. Members must uot voto for more thea one for Prerideut, sad Three for Committee. Votes must be gives by msbiag s X opposite to the names of the Candidates sulcated for support. Esoh member mast show his Pose Curd to obtain s Votiag Paper from the persou who gives them out. The boars of voting sre from 7 un 9 p.m., on Augast srd, 1891. DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES. Boors...... Messrs. COULSOV, LASCELLES, a CODLING. Dsrrssr A Ttrroarao. .Messrs. MARTIN, HOWARD, fr REYNOLDS. Barcasar...... JIossrs. BROADBERRY, HOWARD fr MARTIN. Presses ...... Ifessrs. MoINNES, HARTLEY, A COULSON. Boruorsos...... Messrs. KERS RAW, GAIf SLR 4 REYNOLDS. Qsomsr .. ...Messrs. KERSHAW, BROADBEBRY, n GAlKBLE. Cor u ., lKossrs. HOWARD, GAMBLE n CODLING. Borrows dr Ievs Sroos. .Messrs. HARTLEY, LASCELLRS, rt REYNOLDS. COMMITTEE'S REPORT To rffa Mgbrngns, We beg to submit to you the 119th Quarterly Report and Balance Sheet. The total Receipts of Goods sold during the Quarter is $48,482 19s. Old. , being an increase of $4,805 14s. 4d. over last Quarter, and E6,914 Bs. Bld. over the corresponding Quarter of last year. The net profit on the Quarter's Business is $4,690 Os. 54d. , which sum will allow 8999 9s. Bd. for Interest, g9,208 66. Bd. as Dividend, being Is. Bd. per E on Members' purchases, and SSI 12s. Od. being Sd. per S on purchases of Non-Members; ESI 18s. Sd., bing 2glt per annum for depreciation of Branch and Cottage Property; $95 Bs. 6d. being, lfpt depreciation of Fixed Stock; 657, being 57 depreciation of Milling Plant; R100, being special depreciation of Central and Mill Premises; A'58 18s. Od. ior Educational. purposes; and $52 7s. 44d. to Reserve Fund. 217 persons have joined the Society within the Quarter, 82 have with- drawn, and 5 forfeited as per Rule 6, making the present number 6,690, being an increase of 180 over last Quarter.
We are glad to be able to Report a quarterly total of sales higher than any previously reached by the Society. Part of the increase is attributable to the higher prices of bread and flour that have ruled during the quarter, and part to the increased membership. During last quarter we did not receive a single complaint of the price or quality of goods in any department, and we are there fore at a loss to understand why a considerable section of the members, who are large holders of capital, do not trade any more than is just suiflcient to prevent them from being paid 2$$ interest only. We think it will be necessary shortly to raise the purchasing minimum from 82 quarterly to ES or more, in justice to those members who are loyal to the Society.
The extensions at the Metheringham Branch are now in progress and will be 6nished before harvest, but the work st Welbourn Branch is not yet begun, the plans having taken longer prepamng owing to the alterations being of greater magnitude than those at Metherf'ngham. The need for extending at each place daily becomes more imperative, to cope with the increasing trade. This applies to Sleaford also, where enlarged premises are much needed.
In accordance with our practice for some time past, and which has received your emphatic sanction, we are conflnttirtg substantially to add to the Reserve Fund, and to invest it in undoubted. securities outside of the Society. We purpose in future to build up this fund still more rapidly, so that it may be used as an Insurance Fund also. We have investeri in Lincoln Corporaflon sum 8500, and bought 8500 Debentures in Stock a further of Ruston, Proctor & Co., Limited, and we have no doubt of receiving your approval in both instances. We now hold, to the credit of the Reserve Fund, S2,500 of Lincoln Corporation Stock bearingeartng mterestinterest at Slt; ghe Debentures carry 57 interest.
Theproflts I'rom the working of the Mill continue satisfactory; the sales at the wholesale shop, in Montaoue Street increaningr and there is steadily increasing demand also for the Society's Tire a sPeciality Co&Psrafioo Star Pig Mraf. e beg to unct the attentiogt of our members to this article, introduced the Mill Manager a by year ago, and which is establishing itself 6rmly as a valuable fattertiiif56tod for pigs. The output from the Central Bakery last quarter was 10,615four pound loaves m corresponding quarter of 1890, the weight baked amounting to 299 tons 6 cwt. 1 qr. 8 lbs. FINANCIAL STATEMENT, from April 1st to July 1st, 1891. Dr. CASH ACCOUNT. Cr. BSCCIPTb. s. d 5 s d. DISBURSEMENTS. s. d. To Cash in Beni' snd Cashier's Br (ts2oczr Pkm roa Gooos- Hands 3,700 14 4vi „Sale of Goods —Central, Grocery...... 5.967 9 „ Grocery 11.272 19 . 11$ snd Millinery Drapery!2 Milbnery . . R697 6 0 „Drapery . 3,081 11 11 Boot 4! Shoe . 1,717 13 10 ., Boot snd Shoe .... 1,645 16 Butchering „Butchering...... 5,060 9 4 4,4fot 11 „Coals Hides, Skins, Fats &c 410 10 34 1,134 18 8 Coals ...... 395 16 8 „Tailoring 2,035 12 10 „Furnishing Tailoring 2,026 9 54 1,340 10 o Furnishing...... 1.050 17 24 10,997 I 11 Brscebridge, No. I Branch (,540 19 2) „Carriage of Goods ... 665 10 8 Newport, No. 2 Branch „Carriage of Coals .. 124 19 11 ...... 1,615 5 dQd Shakespeare-st. , iVO. 8 Branch 17(73 15 66 37,579 5 7 v Ripon Street, No. 4 Branch .. 1,526 12 Wkezs ma Pzonocnvz Lmouz Welbourn, No. 5 Branch 1.837 7 8 „Gmcery ...... - ~ ~ ~ ~ "~ - ~ ~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ . 236 12 2 Metheringhsm, „Drspery snd khlhnery. 60 4 No. 6 Branch. .. 1,362 I 24 ..... 14 Gt. Northern. terr. , No. 7 Branch I 1(26 9 10 „Bootsnd Shoe ...... "- - " 112 6 2 Saxilby, No. 8 Branch 1,114 14 I „Butcheriog 66 7 2 Bsggeholme-rd. , No. 9 Branch. 1,(i91 0 9 „Tailoring 245 18 ll Newlsnd-st. West, No. 10Brsnch 1,342 8 61 „Furnishing 112 16 8 Bardney, No 11 Branch 1,134 11 5 „Mttlers ...... ~ ~ - ~ .~ ~ ~ ~ ~ " 264 18 10 Horncsstle, No. 12 Branch . ... 956 13 9 1,101 11 8 Slesford, WIOEs Toa No. 18 Branch 1,688 10 3$ DISIEIsoTIva Lksonz- High Street, No. 14 Branch. .... 1,344 14 10 „ Grocery ...... ~ ~ . ~ ~ . ~ 419 I 6 fdill .... 8,577 19 9' „Drapery ssd hfillinery. . 119 17 0 „Sale of Coals —No. I Branch ... 38 9 „Boot snd Shoe 51 0 6 No. 2 7$ 92 6 96 „Butchering...... ~ -. 97 4 0 No. 8 56 1 10 „Tailoring 62 I 6 No. 4 6616 9 „Furnishing...... 55 5 0 No. 5 0 2 „ Coals ...... 101 10 4 No. 6 lpo 15 „OISOO 137 15 4 No. 7 62 8 8 1,043 15 2 r No. 8 39 12 0 Comr2SSION kNO WkezS kr THE BIIINOHES- No. 9 76 16 0 No. I Branch ...... 82 15 4 No. 10 65 16 10$ No. 2 80 3 0 No. 11 13 0 04 No. 8 27 110 No. 12 82 17 2 No. 4 80 5 0 No. 18 55 12 3 No. 5 67 14 0 No. 14 52 4 Id No. 6 76 17 4 43482 19 &~ No. 7 21 18 3 Additions to Share pd .. Capital 2,571 8 0&l No. 8 31 8 0 Loan Capital No. 9 l 83 3 0 in 1,307 17 8 y' „Deposits Penny Bank, Central 649 4 6 No. 10 27 18 0 No. I Branch. . 715 8 No. 11 25 16 4 No. 2 Branch. . 14 0 2 No. 12 87 4 0 No. 3 Branch. .. 12 0 9 No. 18 89 11 0 No. 8 Branch. .. 912 5 No. 14 29 11 6. No. 11 Branch . 4 518 „Withdrawals 661 I 7/ No. 12 Branch. 32 12 4 from Share Capital 4,013 No. from Loan I 13 Branch 314 0 Capital...... 1,285 4 from Penny Bank . 3r 734 12 9 v ...... 593 12 6v „Repayments fmm House Purchasers —Members „Additions to Fixed and Rolling Stock Account Account. Property „Additions 109 17 6 ~ ...... 416 16 I to Members' Property Account...... 915 T" „Sais of Fixed Stool! „Annnrozs To Burtnme Accouzm- 10 I „Cottage 30 0 0 p.. Beats, Central ...... 0 0 0 „Central 63 14 4 Newport 711 0 „Waterside North ...... 26 0 0 Shakespeare Street 214 0 „North Hykeham (Farm) ...... 75 5 0 Ripon Street .... 512 0 'er Gss Street Additions to Milling Plant 169 19 4 5 4 0 185 0 0 fv Sincil Tenace 2018 0 „Interest on Branch Managers' Bonds Wstemide North „Horse Keep 7 7 Pw 412 0 172 0 4e Gt. Northern Terrace 514 0 „Non-Members' Dividend ($930) st Sd. in the 2 . Kesteven Street „Educational Grant. 31 0 0 cr 6 9 6 ...... 48 „Employ4es Outing. 2 6~ 60 9 ... 38 „Entnmce Fees 6& Izvzsrtmzvs —W. Thomson 8 po 10 13 0 r „ !2 Sons, Ld. , 50 Additional Shares 50 0 Lincoln Corporation Redeemable Oar 0 14 p Stock. .. 490 0 I. Nomination Fees Ruston, Proctor dt 0 0 5 p Co., Id. , Debentnres 515 „Baleof Bales, Cards, snd Cash Books Subscription to Congress 0 Of „S2snch Managers' Bond 8 12 Itzurs, 120 0 0 o Account 44 „ Blaughter Houses ...... , ...... , . 7 15 p 12 0+ ( f „BixMonths' Interest on Corporation Redeemable Horncsstle . Stock 36 11 8 !' ...... 5 p pg Ruston, Proctor Ct Co. Debentmes. . Wholesale ...., 12 8 9P 1215 0 g . Cs~. Society, Interest ...... , ... 35 19 11 „Qmmzkn Exrzzszs- Dividend . „Committee snd ...... 92 10 9 Seoretsry's Salary 39 2 6V „Auditors' Salary 128 10 8 4( 12 10 QV „Stocktating, Extending, Checking, 22c. 18 Insurance ...... 10 0 4 „ ...... Io 7 8VV „Printing, Stationery snd Advertising 6118 6v „Postage Stamps snd Oh!slue Books...... 16 IS Zf 257 '4 I~ „Rates snd Taxes 47 Lg PI 17 2V „Water ...... -- 27 6 SV „Hall Cleaning, fte...... 511 2f „Delegates' Expaases. .'...... , . 518 6v „Tmvelltng Expsnmu ..... I 6 84 11 9 7dr „No.9INstmrt, (ENBszd Section...... 110 07 „Co-opamESO Hmon ...... 210 Of 010 Pf, 010 Of 582 11 8 w Cash m Bank. ... „Cash in Hand . . 2,655 19 7 260 16 8 259,491 14 8 Dr. SHARE CA.PITAL ACCOUNT. Cr. Quarter . s. d. s. d. To Withdrawals .. 4,018 1 2 By Capital ss per last Balance Sheet 69,706 7 6 „Porfnits nn Withdrawals deducted fmm Pixed Stock Account 917 0 „ Interest on 118th Quarter 750 0 0 „Porfeits on Shares purchased 5 0 0 „Dividend on 118th 2,891 18 4 185 Deposits to Bmlding Account Q 5/- each 46 5 0 „Contributions. 2,571 3 0. Fines . 212 7 Mowed for Dividend snd Interest but not requirel ...... 79 11 ., Present Claims of Hsmbers 71,762 16 9 676,919 3 10 275,919 3 10
Dr. LOAN CAPITAII ACCOUNT. Cr.
Q n. d. s. d. To W«Q««lralrsls 1,285 4 3 By Loans ss per last Balance Sheet 15,911 12 2 „Present Claims 16.084 19 10 „Interest ss per last Balance Sheet 15«l 14 3 „Contributions 1,807 17 8 $17,870 4 I $17,370 4 1
FIXED, ROLLING, AND LIVE STOCI( ACCOUNT.
Previoas Additions Additions by Society's Total Depreciation Allowed by last From Fees, Sale of Total Balnncs. Cost. this Quarter. own Worluaen. Cost. previously allowed. Balance Sheet. Sc. Pixed Stoe'k. Depreoistion. Nominal Value. s. d. 2 s. d. 3 s. d. 2 s. d. 6 s. d. 6 s. d. s. d. 2 s. d. 2 s. d. 3 s. d. 7,981 8 61 109 17 6 114 18 6 8,'206 4 64 4,241 10 lid 93 9 6 24 1 7 30 0 0 4,889 2 of 3,817 2 6
MILLING PLANT ACCOUNT.
Previous Addirions Total Depreciation Allowed by last Total Balance. Cost. this Quarter. Cost. previonsly allowed. Bslsnoe Sheet. Depreciation. Nominal Value. 6 s. d. s. d. 6 s. d. 6 s. s. d. s. d. s. d. &.048 19 8 185 0 0 o,178 19 8 566 19 8 66 0 0 622 19 3 4,co6 0 0 Dr. RESERVE FUND. Cr.
s. d. s. d. 1'o Bmpfoydm Ouhag 38 8 0 ~ By Balance as per last Balance Sheet 3,240 7 84 „Balneae . 8,455 7 0 „Forfeits on Shares purchased 5 0 0 „Aoowel by last Balance Sheet 119 15 114 „Allowed for Dividend and Interest but not require«l 79 11 4 „Interest on Corporation Redeemable Stook...... 36 11 8 Huston's Debentures 12 8 9 23,493 10 0 23,493 10 0
Dr, MEMBERS' PROPERTY ACCOUNT. Cr.
d. s. Allows «l 6 s d. 2 s. d. To Amount sdvsneel on Property ss per last Balance Sheet ...... 17,546 19 8 By Repayments ss per Cash Account . 416 16 1 ,. Cash advsncel an Property ss per Cash Accouns ...... 915 10 I „Less Interest 186 8 230 12 11 Balance owing to the Society 18 231 16 10 218,462 9 9 218,462 9 9
Dr. LAND AND BUILDING ACCOUNT. Cr.
« Additions Qris Depreciation Total Present Pmperty. Previous Cask Qasrter. Total Cast. Previously all'wd. last Quarter Depreciation. Nouiinal Value, B s. d. s. s. A 4' s. d. s. d. s. d s. Central Stores ...... 22,907 11 '7, 68 14 4 22,976 6 11 2,685 10 7 23 5 e 2,708 1o 29,2«7 10 4 Brasabridge ...... 688 1 9 639 I 9 92 11 3 8 8 6 9o19 9 543 2 0 Newport ...... 928 11 7 998 11 7 144 10 10 418 0 149 8 10 779 o 9 Shul«en pease Street...... 646 I 6 645 I 6 98 15 3 8 8 9 102 4 549 17 6 . 1,187 10 10 1,187 10 10 182 12 10 188 18 298 12 6 j Pdpon Sheet ...... 656 Welboum ...... 889 0 9 889 0 9 91 8 418 9 96 7 0 785 13 9 am...... 1041 19 6 1,011 19 6 ltr 19 6 515 0 124 14 6 917 5 O Great NorQtemTerrece .... 905 5 11 905 5 11 83 4 5 2 9 88 6 11 8i6 19 0 4 584 6 4 88 810 8 2 1) 91 10 Ssxilby ...... 584 6 8' 10 492 15 6 Bsggeholme Road ...... 776 16 0 776 16 0 119 3 4 2 3 123 5 6 653 10 6 Newlaml Sheet West. . .. 547 3 11 547 3 11 8413 2 217 9 87 10 11 459 13 0 Bsrdney ...... 633 0 10 633 0 18 67 11 1 310 9 71 1 10 561 19 0 HomsssQe ...... 759 4 6 759 4 6 MI 10 0 4 8 6 56 18 6 702 6 0 Slesfonl -. . . . 2,853 14 7 9,35S 14 7 52 11 7 14 7 9 66 19 4 2,286 le 3 ...... 1 22 7 I 6 High Stmst...... 617 18 1 617 18 814 26 1 591 16 6 Pres Scbool Lane ...... 593 16 0 593 16 0 92 9 0 3 2 9 «J5 11 9 498 4 3 Gas Street . . 276 4 11 276 4 11 42 16 8 1 9 3 44 5 11 281 19 0 ...... 888 13 Waterside North. .., . . S«IQQ 11 11 25 0 0 7,225 11 11 0 28 0 0 411 13 O 6,818 18 11 .. . . 286 15 9 177 11 0 612 6 Smail Tenens ...,~ .~ - ... WK 15 8 1, 184 3 1,052 12 8 Kesteven Street ....- .... 564 18 I 564 13 I 7 0 4 3 9 9 10 10 1 554 3 0 Norlh Hykeham P'aan) .. L161 8 0 75 5 0 1,236 13 0 0 0 0 7 5 7 5 8 1,229: T 9, 246,441 17 4 $160 19 4 $4S,611 16 8 B4,693 7 8 6138 5 8 g«4,8$1 IS 11 Dr. GENERAL STATEMENT. Cr. s. d. 8 s. d. 2 3,219 3 9 To Share Capital 71,762 16 9 By Stock, erocery ...... 16,084 19 10 Drapery snd Millinery . , 3,943 13 8 „Loan Capital 2,257 9 „Penny Bank Deposits 6,455 4 7$ Boot snd Shoe 455 7 0 Butchering .... 655 5 10 „Reserve Fund 3, 138 6 8 „Branch Managers' Bonds . 723 14. 9 Coals 55 0 0 Tailoring. ... 4,567 12 „Balance of Congress Fund 588 6 „Balance 4,690 0 5$ Famishing ...... 1, No. 1 Branch 247 19 6 No. 2 301 3 0 No. 3 296 19 0 No. 4 244 7 0 578 12 0 No. 6 649 7 9 No 7 259 14 No. 8 388 10 0 No. 9 808 16 9 No. 10 268 0 9 No. 11 245 8 0 No. 12 474 7 0 No. 13 1,215 12 5 No. 14 121 0 8,760 8 96,746 4 1 „Building snd Land Account 41,780 8 9 „Members' Property hecount 18,231 16 10 „Fixed Stock Account 3,817 9 6 „Milling Plant Account 4,556 0 0 „Shares m "Co-operative Wholesale Society ...... 2,750 0 0 "Hebden Bridge Fnstisn Co-op. Society " . . 20 0 0 "The Co-operative Insurance Company " .. 50 0 0 "The Leicester Hosiery Co-op. Society " ... 0 0 "The Co-opezative Printing Society " 0 0 "Paisley Manufacturing Co-operative Society 0 0 "London Productive Society" ...... 10 0 0 "Thomson d Son's Productive Society e .. 100 0 0 "Co-operative Newspaper Society"...... 10 0 Il "Cradley Heath Chain bfsker's Society" 10 0 0 "Dudley Bucket and Fender Society" ..... 0 0 „Lincoln Corporation Redeemable Smek 2,410 0 0 „Debentaree —Rectos, Proctor 8 Co., Limited 515 0 0 „Cash in Bank, snd Cashier's hands ...... 2,918 16 8 8103,227 3 5 $108,997 8 5
Dr. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Cr. e. il. s. d. By Balance disposable 4 6r90 0 5i By Pro6t, Grocery 700 6 10$ Drapery snd tfillinery .. 318 7 7 Boot and Shoe 267 8 9 Butchering .. 496 6 8 100 19 0 Tailoring 313 14 Ilt Furnishing 113 13 4$ No. 1 Branch 126 9 9$ No. 2 148 5 Oj No. 3 127 16 Oi No. 4 153 14 8 No. 5 137 ll 11 No. 6 135 6 9$ No. 7 91 15 6 No. 8 81 16 4 No. 9 150 4 5 No. 10 124 7 No. 11 70 16 11 No. 12 73 6 1 No. 13 175 5 11$ No. 14 113 15 9 289 16 7 4,811 4 lit „Rents, as pez Cash Account 80 9 6r „Rules snd Cards ...... 319 2~ „Interest fmm hfembers' Property descant...... 186 8 „Dhridsnd aml Intenat from Co-opeeative Wholesale 128 10 gm
84,690 0 59 24,690 0 &4 PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PBOFIT.
8 s. d. 8 s. d. s. To Interest on Share Capital ...... 780 0 0 By Balance disposable .. f,gioO O 5 i „Interest on Loan Capital les 8 2 „interest on Penny Baalr Deposits .. 57 18 0 „Interest on Branch bfsnagers' Bonds .. 9 8 6 999 9 8 „Dividend on 888,500, st I/8 in the g...... Sms 6 se' „Non-lfembers' Dividend on $948 at sd. in the 8 5112 0 V „24per cent. Depnaistion oi Branch snd Cottage Pmperty 91 18 8 „10per cent. Depredation of Pixed Stock 95 8 6 „5per cent. „oflfilling Plant 67 0 0 „Central Premises...... 50 0 0 „ilSS 50 0 0 344 6 9w „Eduostfonsl Gnmt, ll per cent. oi Net Prost .. 5818 O~I „Reserve Pand 52 7 44 a ~
$4,690 0 54 B4 690 0 ui
Audited scd found correct, July 21st, 1891. GEO. RICHARDSON. JAS. ORANG%.
EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE. 'lfr. J. W. CODLING, Presideat ...... 2 'Mn G. BACON...... 4 Mr. A. HUODLES1'ONE ..... 'Mr. G. RICHARDSON, Treamrer ...... 4 bfr. P. NEEDLEY ...... 6 Ifr. W. WOODHOUSE lfr, I. W. TOWLEB, Secretary...... 5 Mr. G. TREAVETT...... '...... 6 bfr. W. LOVATT ...... 'Mr. G. PICEERING ...... 4 'lfr. W. HEWSON ...... o bfr. A. KEMP {retires) The Rgures alter the aamee indicate the namber of Committee Meetings attended, six having been held. ' Retiring Members.
Dr. EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. Gr.
INCOME. s. d. EXPENDITURE. 8 s. d. To Balance fonvsnl 15 8 6 To Gleaning 118 1 „Cash fmm Idbnadsn 4 5 9 „Libraria's Salary 710 0 „Quartedy Grant 48 2 6 „New Books 26 8 10 Sale of Papers 1 510 „Tuning Piano . 0 0 o „Fmeiebing Department Ac oust. .. 810 9 „Postage snd Commission . 0 1 1 „Bepsire . 0 9 0 „Newspapers, Magazines, ikc. 10 7 54 „Waste Papers 0 011 „Bsleuce forward 16 12 114
$67 2 7 $67 2 7
Wsramusn Bsurca Comrrrrsn. —Mr. D. P. Ablewhite, Coleby, Chsinmm; Iur. Joseph Grey, Welbouxn, Secretary; lfr. Thos. Msniott, Welbourn; Mr. J. Sharps, Welbourn; bfr. W Hotchin, Csythorpe; Mr. Thomas Codd, Csytborpe; Mr, John Hammond, Welbouru; Mr. J. H. Jolly, Leadenhsm; Mr. Henry Bsrwell, Pulbeck; IMr. Ik Phillips, Wellingore; Mr. B.Gald, Nsvenby; lfr. Joseph Flutters, Boothby; Mr. P. Thornton, Boothby.
Mwrnnamcaaa Bsanca Coaarrna. —Mr. Edmund Lupton, Dunston, Chairman; Mr. Elijah Reynolds, lfetheringhsm, Secretary; Mr. Wiuism lfsthers, Mr, Bavin Rosdagton, lfetheringhsm; bfr. John Spenser, bfr. Prancis Liuton, Dunston; Mr. Charles Baumber, Scopwick; kir. John Lsvtnder, Ilfetheriughsm; lfr. Arthur Lake, Metheringhsm; Mr. H. W. Bagsley, Dunston.
Bannsar Baaaca Ceaarnaa. —Mr. G. 1fiBs,Bsrdney, Chairman; Mr. Robt. Ghsmberlin, Bsrdney, Seoretsry I Mr. H. Psrkes, Bsrduey; Mr. Rowland, Bsrdney; Mr. p. Horsewood, Bsnlney; Mr. G. Maddison, Bsalaey; Mr. T. Simpson, Sou4hrey; snd Mr. Bartlett, StainRcld.
Sr,aaroan Baaaon Coaarnna. —Mr. J. D. Crmmlon, Shahml, Ghsinaau; Ma C. Sumuer, Slesiord, Secretary; Mr. J. Rudkin, Slesiord; Mr. C. Bsttersby, Siesford; Mr. J. Brackenbury, Sleaford; Mr. J. Beet, Sleaford; Mr. J. Clayton W'lloughby; Mr. 8, Staples, Raslringtoa; Mr. T. Newton, Swarby.
NOTICES.
1. Nou-Mcmbcrc' Dividend is paid 84 the Officu, Ccutml Stomg, Silvsr Street, during oScc hours. S. On giving notice of Withdrawal from Sharc nr Loan Capital, Members are requested to give 4bcir Sharc or Losu Number, Name Addrcaa, Nohocc to be delivered a4 the OSoe, or pld;, into the Letter Box in the Large Door, uot latex lbau t3 p-m. on Tuesdays. %ithdvawal Notico Forms cau be had ou applics4iou at the OSca. S. Contributions to the Penny Bank aru zcccived at the General OS008 avery dsy duriug Ogioc hours, aud al tbe Braccbrjdec Newport Shakespeare Skceat, and all 4hc Country Branches, every Mouduy.
4. To bucomu', Sdfyiotfumutgd with the working of Co-oporaMou, Mcmbcfg should read the Co-operative News, which may be hud at 4 Stares and Sfo"pjrsiuchs'8 svc'xy Saturday, price One Half-ponuy. . The pass Books will be ready ou Saturday, August 8th, and the Mumbcrg witt please cull at 4ho OScc for thorn ou that day. INDVSTRIE. L E,ND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES E.CT, 1876, 69 RHd 4o ANNUAL RETURN OF THE Lincol ti Equitable I'o-opet ative Industvial Society, Limited, AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIEF REGISTRAR, I bfbfy Icg bl( 'I.'IIE YE=vhfd E vi I yl&6 l)VCVvrllgVLd Nls*v ~ ~ 6,578 Kame of Society —Lincoln Equitable Co-operstive Industrial Society, Limited. Number of ldembers st the beginning of the year Number of bfembers sdmittwl during the year .. 836 Objects of the Society —Dealers, Wholesale snd Retail. Register No. 141. Together whose i3lembership have ceased during the year ... 291 Date of Estsblishmeot —August, 1861. Number of Members ... When 6rst Enrolled, Certiged, or Registered —September 17th, 186L Total number of Members st tbe end of tbe year ...... 6,128 Name snd Address of the Treasurer, sud of every other Ofscer in receipt or charge The Audit for the year hss been conducted by Mr, Gaouez Rrcusunsoz, of 19y of Money —Gzozoz Hsuvszr (Treasurer), 13, Arboretum Avenue; Fuzu Chehnelonl Street, Lincoln, whose cs((ing oi proifsasion is Mechanic; and Svsrazzsoz (Cashier), 3, Beaumont Fee. Jsuzs Oaszsz, of 9, Monte Bosd, whose os0ing or profession is Lsy Clerk. Dr. CASH ACCOUNT. RECEIPTS s. d. PAYMENTS. s. d. Shares —Contributione ...... 9,374 3 10 Share Capital Repaid, Interest snd Dividend to ifembem 15,760 9 11 Loans sud Deposits 6,836 9 8 Dividend to Non. bfembers ...... 118 9 10 Sales of Goods...... 147,557 11 9 Loans snd Deposits ...... 4,680 9 Rents 225 16 0 Goods, including Csrrisxe ...... 125,408 6 7 Fees sud Fines: Entrance, Nomination, snd Withdrawal...... 43 3 9 Productive Wages snd Expenses 3,670 4 0 Rules end Pass or Contribution Books ...... , ...... 18 7 0 (Salaries snd Wages ...... 6,158 I 11 Interest end Pro6ts on Investments, Dividend on Purchases...... 648 4 5 Management Expenses Rates, Texas sad Inearsnoe 766 Investmsnts —Deposits snd Repayments of Advances on Security ]Rents,Other Expenses...... 2,196 7 sf o! Freehold Property...... , ..., ...... 1,788 9 8 For Lead, BuihBngs, snd Fixtares for Tnule Parposes 6,278 10 9 Brauoh Managers' Bond Account 162 8 0 Advances on Semnity of Freehoids 1,633 3 I Sale of Fixed Stook 7 0 0 Other Advances or Investments...... 555 2 6 Educational Pmposes ...... 165 5 8 Total Receipts. .. 166,656 6 8 Donations aud Subemipiions...... 41 14 0 Bnnk Withdrawals during the year. . 98,985 2 10 Repayments of Branch Managers' Bonds 60 5 4 Cash in Hand at beginning of year .. 358 3 2 Total Payments .. 167,387 16 76 Bank Deposits dming the year. . 98,440 17 3 Cash in Hand at eud of year 220 18 9j $265,999 12 8 $265,999 12 8 MANAGEMENT EXPENSES. 6 s. d. 6 s. d. To Salaries snd Wages ...... 6,158 I 11 By Interest on Shares, Loans, bfortgages, Deposits, Bent Aoeoaat, „Rents, Rates, Texas, sud Insurance ...... 76i6 7 li snd other investments...... 1,888 8 4 „Other Expenses ...... :...... 2,196 ' „ Rents ...... 225 16 0 „ Interest on Shares, Loans, Deposits, snd Bank Current Advances 3,616 3 11-, n Fees snd Pines; Entrance, Nomination, sud izitbdrawal ..... 48 3 9 Depreciation —Laud, Buildings, sud Fixtares ...... 1,081 0 0 „Rules, Pass, and Contributioa Boots...... 18 7 0 „ Trade Charges ...... ~ ..... ~ ...... 12497 10 2$ $13,818 0 $18Jfls 0 3x Dr. TRADE OF YEAS. Or. s. d. s. ch To Estimated Value of Stock-iu-Trade st beginning of year ...... 19,025 14 I By Net Sales ...... 147,557 11 9 n Net Purchases daring the year, as per Invoice Book, including Dividends on Purchases Carriage I'i5, 408 6 7 „Estimated Value of Stock-in-Trade at end of year. . . 23,367 10 21 n Productive Wages sud Expenses 3,670 4 0 „iblensgement Expenses 72,197 10 24 ., Balance Pro6t on the Year's Transactions ...... 11,069 10
2171,371 5 3v $171,371 5 gex PEOFIT AND LOSS AND APPLICATION OF PROFIT. Cr s. d. 5 s. d. 8 s. d. Ta Dividend to Members...... 10,562 10 0 To Pmgt from Transactions of the year. .. 11,069 10 5 „Dirideud to Ron-ifembers. . .. 111 15 6 ., Donatione and Subscriptions 41 14 0 „For Educstiensl Parposes. .... 173 19 9 ,.Rmenre Frmd ...... 119 11 2 Cougmss Fsad 60 0 0 11,069 10 5
BI1,069 10 5 $11,069,10 5 EAIiANCE SHEET OF FUNDS AND EFFECTS. Cr. s. ik Value of Stock.in-Trade...... , ...... 28,867 10 v Vslne of Buildings, Pixtures, snd Lend used in Trale 49,886 0 9 Bcserve Fuui ...... L157 17 On Freehold Security, yielding Interest si 45 per eeet...... 18,15o 8 Bmncb Rsusgcre' Bond Account ...... 7 'h 15 Oa Losue sud Deposits, yielding Interest at 3 per sent...... 1,920 0 0 Congress Fund ...... ltri 0 0 In Shares of Co-operative Wholesale Society, yielding Iahirest at rrogts of last Balance Sheet iuriuded iu A r i
297,614 16 11 $97,614 16 11 GEORGE HARTLEY, Tazsauazz. DlINCAN MANNER, Szasama. FRED STEPHENSON, Csatrrss. Tbc uoderv'gued, having hsd sccece to sH the Boolis and Acconnts of the Society, sud having examined the Foregoing General Statement, snd veri6ed the same with the Acconui sud Voachem relating thereto, now sign ths same as found correct, duly vouched and in accordance with lsw. GEORGR RICHARDSON snd JAMES ORANGE, hunrross. X~nFotn $6-C)y~r Jtt~'F, NEW SERIES No. 7
INCE the last Rooord was issued the Co-operative Congress clearly in noticing the causes that bring about the establish- S has come and gone. Probably it may never again, in the ment of our country branches. They are invariably started at lifetime of most of our present members, be held in Lincoln. It the instance of some member or small group of members who is gratifying to know that the elForts of the Reception Committee have lived in Lincoln or in a district that our vane travel to give satisfaction, were so successfuL Our Society has naturally over. The establishing of these branches has gone on in- been brought into prominent notice. Its methods of working and creasing since 1878, when that at Welbourn was opened, its management have been open to the criticism of co-operators side by side with the opening of branches in Lincoln. And from every part of Great Britain, and it is safe to say, that it has while the Society is still being asked continually to open other come out of the ordeal with credit, and in some points even country branches, it cannot be said that Lincoln itself is with distinction. The "Co-operative News, " in an article on the much more than half supplied. The High-street Branch, the Congress says, "Co-operative Lincoln bubbles over with young last that was opened, where the receipts within two years over- life, it is intensely modern, enterprizing, and innovating. " In topped 81,000 quarterly, proves the truth of this. Above- "Features of the Lincoln Congress:" Mr. G. J. Holyoake says, hill there is a large industrial population but only one Branch ~ ' The buildings and departments of the great Store continued to Store, and no Butchery Branch, while our members in St. the end to excite admiration. There were no windows in Lincoln Botolph's and St. Catherine's have to trudge to the Central or so alluring and businesslike as those ot the Stores. It was impos- to Ripon-street to purchase fresh meat from the Society. And sible to pass by them without wishing to go in and buy something. yet there is plenty of co-operative spirit within the membership, I have never seen Store windows so clean, so bright, various in and there needs to be, for in all Societies like ours there their contents, and set out with so much taste. I have thought invariably exists also everlastingly that blind feeling which Stores would always fall below the general grocer and draper in opposes every proposed new step, as though it were a leap into the art of shopkeeping, but the Lincoln Store excels." In the outer darkness. This applies to the world as a whole, equally ~' Dewsbury Co-operative Pioneer, " for July, is the following as pertinently as it does to our Society, yet the world moves notice: "The Congress was held in the famous City of Lincoln on, slowly perhaps, but forward always. The fact cannot be during Whitsun-week. The Lincoln Society has advanced to its too often stated, that the larger our trade and the more closely members since March, 1888, the sum of 888,000 to enable them we concentrate our buying upon the Wholesale Society and to purchase houses of their own. One peculiar feature of their other co-operative channels, the greater will be our financial scheme is, that they do not ask for a deposit on account, as we success, under proper management. There is no teacher to equal do. The Lincoln Society has done more for the toiling down- experience. The co-operative education of ourselves as a great trodden agricultural labourers than any body of men —may their federal society, and not the isolation of existing co-operative labour prosper! " The Reading-room, Library, and Refresh- efforts, should be our great single aim. While our Society has been ment Room also came in for many encomiums from delegates, progressing on the federative principle and accumulating wealth, which praise, indeed, is well deserved, for it is questionable while our members have been investing hundreds of pounds in whether better-appointed rooms can be found, even in connection perfect safety, Lincolnshire and the adjoining agricultural with those older-established Co-operative Societies in Lancashire, counties have been strewn with the wrecks of little isolated where high wages are earned, high prices are charged for goods, societies in which numbers of working-men have lost their all. and consequently higher d'vidends are paid by the Stores than It is the realization of this danger that causes groups of such men in this City, in which the van delivery of goods is an added charge in the country villages to say, to Lincoln, to Grantham, to Boston, against the profits, tending to keep dividends permanently low. to Gainsborough co-operators —Come and help as. Our Society has nobly responded to the call, and now others are following in our footsteps. And while have GREAT deal of misapprehension exists among a section we helped the country membership of to obtain A our members in respect to the status of the country and other 811,000 of capital in the Society, the town members branches, and more even, as to the position they as have benefited also, correspondingly, because they have been yearly occupy profit dividends. producing concerns. Amid all that is said about branches or that obtainiug higher The average dividend now is fivepence in the higher than it is likely to be said, one fact stands out clearly, whether it be 8 was in 1878, when the first country branch was established, while the Reserve attributable to the establishment of branches, or in spite of it, is Fund has now reached the it magnificent sum of 498. a fact that ever since they began to be opened the Society has 88, But let us take things from the point of view of a statesman or been growing rapidly, gaining ground not simply in one, but in all an economist: —If co-operation thus converts numbers directions. Statistics prove this, the capital has increased, the of our country members into small labouring capitalists, is not average amount of purchases per member is higher and the divi- it probable, in the future, when they shall have obtained a voice dend is greater. In 1876, when the first branch was opened greater in the management of their own afFairs, at when the rent of allotments is Bracebridge, the average Dividend for the year was 1s. Bd. in the brought down to that of ordinary agricultural land, and the area such 8, and the Reserve Fund then stood at the exceedingly small sum of holdings is increased, that more of them will remain home of 887, against a capital of 89,798, the bulk of which was locked at instead of leaving the country to compete with the town worker in up in buildings much too large for the trade that was done in an already glutted labour market I The answer is obviously in the them. Now, the establishment of Branch Stores has not only aflirmative. To help, canied the benefita of if even in a small way, to bring about such a condition of things c~peration to the very doors of hundreds, the causing them to become members of our Society', but it has con- is clearly duty of every wage earner in the towns who wishes his verted the Central into a huge wholesale otfice and and it wages keeping up; to secure so desirable a consumma- depBt, has tion co-operative created an extended market for the pmducts the MilL Mean- of etfort as the re-establishment, in comfort, of of the while a greater retail trade than ever is canied on the people upon the land, from which they have been banished, at Central, should be the ~here the heavy purchases of country members at some of the duty of every co-operator who witnesses the misery departments are a yearly increasing satisfactory portion the and helplessness, the filthiness and squalor of the slums of o'ur of towns, trade, which the Society never would have obtained had it large over which is veritably if not visibly written, in not fire, been for the establishment of branches in the country villages. letters of the terrible words: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. " Momover, owing to the operation of the same causes, the time is rapidly approaching when for every stone of fiour and offats made at the Mill, we shall have a market within the NOTES. Society. When jhat time arrives it will be possible, as well THE resolution passed at the last General Meeting reducing as desirable, . to invest a few more thousands of pounds in the working hours at the Mill and Bakehouse to 54 per machinery to supply our present wholesale co-operative cus- week, places those employed there in a position similar to that tomers in Lmcebrahire and the Midlands. The pmsperity occupied by the bulk of the members of the Society or adversity. of: who are ar..operative Society like ours, acts and engaged at the various engineering works. It is a step in re-acts net only apoa. the its own membership but upon members and right direction, and should be followed by a reduction of the intending tnembera ofocietiea all thmughout the district over working hours at the Central Stores. Why a man which its infiuenee. or woman who :extends, rapidly acceleratdng progress or is occupied behind a counter, or as a warehouseman, or retarding it indefiniitely as the case or dressmaker, butcher, may be. We see this mast or milliner, or confectionery baker, should be 10 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
expected or desired to work longer hours than a miller or bread- The United Society of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders baker, it is impossible to imagine. There is only one way to Investments: Annual Report for 1890. account for it, namely, that it is the custom in these trades to work Preference Shares in the Elswick Works . .. $10,000 0 0 long hours, but that applied with equal force to the Mill and Tyne Commissioners . .. „. .. „. 81L000 0 0 Bakehouse also, where the hours are now shortened. We broke Shares in North Eastern Railway...... 8 5,012 7 9 through trade custom thirty years ago by granting all employ4es Shares in London and North Western Railway 8 5,018 7 8 of the Society a half-day holiday every week; another forward Barrow-in-Furness Corporation ...... 8 5,000 0 0 step was taken when our places of business were closed at 7 p.m. , Stockton-on- Tees Corporation ...... 8 5,000 0 0 and yet another, when 9-80 p.m. was fixed upon as the closing time on Saturdays. Why cannot we proceed a step further and Total ... $41,025 15 0 close at 9 on Saturdays I
Stripped of all verbiage, the Society has made the Mill and Bakehouse employees a present of four hours wages per week. As During the Scotch Railway Strike last winter, the members of the Mill is now running continuously, it is probable that those the City of Perth Co-operative Society, at a duly convened employed in it will elect still to work the same number of hours as General Meeting, passed a resolution granting from the Society's previously, but those over 54 per week will be regarded as over- Provident Fund a sum of 8100 to the Strike Fund, whereupon an time. That is indeed what 54 hours per week means in the action was raised against the Society by eight of its members, to staple trade of Lincoln. Perhaps necessarily, the hours of labour prevent the resolution being carried out. The action was are, in many instances, no fewer than they were before the nine successful, the judge holding that a General Meeting could not hours day was adopted. Our mill and bakehouse, where the make a graat from a Society's Provident Fund for such a purpose. hours are 54 per week, are now in direct competition with others at which 58 hours are worked for the same, or possibly, lower wages. This means that the products are obtained at an Huddersfield Co-opera- increased cost for labour. What course then should be taken by On May 80th a General Meeting of the to make for this increase I Doubtless it tive Society granted 820 to the Manningham Mills Strike Fund. the Society up may law re'ckon on the good will of the employees. Considering their The Committee of the Society, fearing to violate the by increased satisfaction with their present position, they may paying over the money, entered an action to test the validity resolution of fairly be expected to minimise all waste ss much as possible. of the grant. The judge stated that no such a The machinery, whenever it can be, must be improved with General Meeting was valid unless every member of the Society the view of utilising waste or partly waste products, or in any voted for it. There were 800 odd at the meeting and the Society other way cheapening production. And the members must has a membership of over 9,000! besatisfied if they receive a little less profit. Knowing that we have simply done our duty we must be prepared to bear the uacomplainingly, even should a slightly smaller consequences Mr. V. Neale, the General Secretary of the Co-operative return of net profit be the result. E. Union, is of opinion that the ruling of the County Court X Judge in the Huddersfield case, is wrong, and the Ofiice Committee of Another step taken by the last General Meeting is taken none the Union have therefore decided to recommend the United toosoon in the Society's history. The Committee were directed to Board to take up an appeal case against the decision. Mean- invest capital from time to time, according to their judgment, in while, Mr. Neale has advised the Huddersfield Society to amend Limited and other Companies. The power to take such course, its rules so as to obtain complete liberty to deal with such grants is under the Rules, vested in the Committee, but they submitted ia future. the matter to the members to elicit ideas upon it. Although the voice of the meeting, as far as it could he ascertained, seemed distinctly favourable towards investments of this character, it At Spalding there is now the nucleus of a Co-operative Societyv ! cannot be said that any suggestioas were made at all helpful to which will shortly be registered and commeace business. The the Comaattee or likely to guide them in their judgment. members have taken the, wise. course of accumulating sufficient Negative criticism is so much easier than constructive, that this capital, by weekly subscriptioas, before starting:, in a. sliop. . A is hardly to be wondered at. It can scarcely be hoped that any meeting, at which representatives of the Grantham Society and investmeats ever made by the Society will receive unqualified of the Midland Section of the Co-operative Union were present; apprnvsf, when there are members to be found who questioa the was held. at the Public Hall, Billingborough, on July 18th. For'a wisdom ef taking money out of the bank and investing it under long time past there has been a pronounced desire amongst the Reserve Fund Account in Lincoln Corporation Guaranteed working-classes of this and the surrounding villages to embark Stock for 1 per cent. more interest than that obtained at the in co-operation, and this feeling has lately been intensified by the 15ardtl Vagaries of this kind we mast always expect, the health- advocates of the Dockers' Union, two of whom are canvassing iest, „,sign is, that the bulk of the members very wisely see that Lincolnshire for members. Ia addition to setting forth the ia aaah steps, as.these the Society is being soundly finaaced. objects of their own Union and its benefits to the labourers, they are warmly advocating co-operation. At Bassiagham efforts are „The balk. of tjte .old-istablfshed Co-operative Societies further being made to obtain a Store for the working-classes. The maia, ; obstacles ~*;divest Ia'rgely, Railways, Canals, Docks, and Limited to starting independent societies in villages such as ht, these Maaafactari?tg Companies, 'The foBowing are a few of the are want of capital and absence of trained fatslBIlpst49a fava'stments of a couple of.Trade Societies, many members of sufficient to form a good managing committee each of'which belong to oar 'Society. Investments made by the Typographical Association, as takea I'rom the Half-yearly „"J Balance Sheet for June 28th, 1890:— There is a useful little statum which, although ft haa been law Invested with Oldham Corporation...... 82,000 for nearly twenty years, appears to be sty. little:known and used Mossley ...... 81,000 by the poor persons fer whosi: benefit'. it.:.w'ast ptatsed. It often Manchester . . .. happens that a nasa dies:intestate in the?country leaving a little „...... 82,000 ', „. 52,000 property perhaps &0 or 880 alaogetfmr. His wrdow or,children 82,000 are frequently ignorant what step to take to properly administer Bolton 81,000 and divide' this, amaftr estate. m 'a;. legal: manner. They have heard -that they must Bradford ...... = $1,000 perhadss baca, told or get "letters of . adarinfstratioa v hsrt. fhe vary. term is suggestive of mystery sari „, 81,000 ' 4 Preston, ', .. ..- difficufty If:thveyy. vfsste Iiialy aware of this statute they would ' . . .:. ... 52,000 Burafey . „': ' ...... 81,000 kaow that iR .they have'ta do is to adjourn to the nearett county Greenock I?eck aad Harhoar Board $1,500 court aad mtptafa. theposition to the registrar, who is bouad;to ~ fitf up and swear the necessary papers for a very small fee,-. aad obtain grant of administration as speedily as possible. .As there fi ao daty payable the cost is next to nothings LINCOLN CO-OPERATVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
Bdameonal Fend receival a EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. WISBECH PH(ENIX. —Ninth halt- The year ended April 1st, 1891. grant of S5 19a fmm the pmstc of the Educational Committee have pleasure in announcing that they have made the 5 e. d. half-year, and the same amount wse Y following arrangements for extending the ucefulneca of the Department, snd Bales ...... 8,621 0 44 paid io the employis as bonus. There they hope to secure the hearty support of the members. Provisional arrsngementc Share and Loan Capital 1,414 12 9 sre 148 members, an increase of 19 aver have been male for forming s Juvenile Choir, to be composed entirely of cbiklren Reserve Fanl ...... 52 0 0 the previous half-year. The hade ol members, under 15 years of sge. The Committee hope to engage, se Instruc- Dividend ...... 0 I 0 receipts sre steadily increasing. tor, a member of the Cathedral Choir. It is saggectal that a "Co-operative Choral Assets...... 1,881 0 4 Union" shan be formed, snd the Committee have consented to &sn in with the suggestion if thirty members make application; they have also arranged for Recit- ing, Singing, snd Instrumental Competitione open to members' children under 15 years of sgc. These will be conducted ender conditions similar to 4bose of CORRESPONDENCE. the Beciting Competitions held s fcw years sgo. Tc cccurc iuicrtion, lcticrc ckould be writes ou one ride of tkc paper only, iu s Dr. J.Conier hss hndly coneental to give, in addition to 4he Ambulance Lecturer legible head, sud auihcsiicstcd by the usmc uad eddrca of tkc writer, uot for pab. to ))fin, s seriee of Lectures on Sick-Nuriing to ))remen, il' thirty osu be found to licaiioa unlcic ccprarlg iiiicndrd co. AS ccrvcrpoadcucc should be eddrccccd io Thr form s class. Syllabus of Lectare to Women on Nursing snd Hygiene: —Iciovuaz Editor, Lincoln Co-opcrsiicc Record, 63, Portland Succi, Lincoln. The Biok Bomn. Intmdactory remarks —Seleotion, preparation, and cleaning I. Co-operative aad os the workings of ikc Scacty of room —Bal anl Bedding — —Warming end VentSstion. Luozaax Il. Src invite lrucri oa tcpicc, Famishing colwasc are open to kut wc cnsaot kold our- Infection snd Disinfection —Infectious snd Non-infectious Cases —Quarantine of fmci any of our lfmsbcra Three sn, Patient —History of s Pever Csee —Disinfecting snd Disinfectants. Lacruaz 111. ielvcc rccpcnriblc for tkc opinions of our corrccpoudcaic. Detsilsof Nuxaing. The Nurse —Regulation of Visitors —lfansgement of Nurse'e own health —Washing and Dressing of Patients —Bel blakiug —Chsuginr Sheetc- Lifting Helpless Patients —Sick Dist —Administration of Food, Medicine, snd REFRESHMENT BJKR, Stimulants. Lzcruaz IV. Details of Nursing (continuel). Observation of the Sick—Rigors —Sleep —Pain —Torture —Skin —Appetite —Vomiting —Cough —Ex- NEW BUILDINGS, PREE SCHOOL pectoration —Effects of Remedies, Ac.—Temperature Taking —Baths —eed-cores- Delirimn —Nmcing Sick Children —What to prepare lor Physician's snd Surgeon' s TAR I F F. Visit. Lzorusz V. Application of Local Remeliec —Poultices —Fomentationa- d. d. d. Blisters —Ointments —Leeches —Padding Splints —Bandaging —Personal snd Cup of Tes 1 Bread R Butter - 2 Pork Pie - 2 Family Hygiene —Management of Convsleacentc. The Roller Bandage, snd itc Pot of Tea li Roll 8 Butter . 9 application, also Testment of Prsetures, Wouade, Drowning, Bema, P'ainting 8 Bun 8 Butter - 1$ Plain Tea - - 4 Piff, Rc., Ao. Cup of Cosee 1 Sconce - . I Tea with Pastry - 6 Cup ol Cocoa 1 Burne S Butter - If Lemonade . . 2 Hsm Bandwioh 2 Pastry - - . 1 Ginger Beer . - Ii GLEA.NING8 FROM BA,LANCE 8HEET8 OF Plate of Ham 8 Sausage Boll - I Potted Mesh - - It 6 Plum Bread R Batter 9 Cigars - . - 2 NEIGHROURIN G 8OCIETIES PETEBBOBOUGH. —Fifty-eixth quar- HACKTHORN AND COLD HAN- ter, ended kfsreh 94th, 1891. WORTH. —Tenth half-ycar emled De- News Room; Library; Refreshment Room. c. d. cember 81st, 1890. Sales ...... 14,846 9 2$ s. d TEE NE frS ROON is opeaed on Mondays, Taeedaye, snd Thursdays «t 8 o'rioek Sbsm Capffal ...... 21,229 12 8 Sales ...... 627 10 0 p.m. ; on Wednesdays st 5.80 p.m. ; an Pridsys at 11a.m. ; and on Saturdays Reserve Fand ...... 809 6 0$ Share Capital...... 192 14 at 2 p.m. It is oloecd every Evening st 9.30. Re'carve 80 0 IYividcnd ...... 0 1 10 Pand...... 0 for books: Dividend. 0 THE LISRART is open changing Monday, Taealay, Thmedsy, Assets ...... 95,814 14 7 ...... I 10 7 to 9 m. Pridsy, 1-80 to 2-80 m. for Educational Grant wsc Aeeeta . . 825 12 Friday, p. ; p. , Country Members only; The EI5; ...... Sstorday, 6 to 9 p.m. 4he Lnuary now em4sinc 916 vole." GRANTHAkf. —Quarter endal April A )saturn on " hrhilisn Socialism, by 7th. 1891. THE REPRESffdfENT ROOIf ic open Baring ths same hours as the News Boom Bev. Stewart Hsedlam, of London, on s. exoept on Wednesdays, when it is cloeal sltoygher. March 8, wss only meagrely affendal. Sales ...... 5,686 6 7$ A Plower, Prait, and Vegetable Show, Sham Capital ...... 8,870 15 2 promoted by the Educational Com- 11 8 Reserve Pand ...... 266 LIST OF NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS mittee. wss held an July 18th. There Dividend...... 0 1 8 TAKEN is s Women's Guild, which holds itc Ditto (Drapery)...... 0 1 0 IN THE READING ROOhf. meetings on alternate Wednesdays. Aecets...... 10.877 17 44 The Branch of the Society at March The Elucsiionsl Department received DAILY PAPERS.—Standard, Daoy Hews, Daily Chmaiole, Daily Telegmph, (Csmbe. ) is in s decidelly healthy state, s grant of Ss. A Branch has been Psn Msn Gazette, Manchester Guardian, Manchester Ezsminer, Leeds Meromy, the trade receipts for last quarter opened st Botteeford, where the trade ic SheSield Independent, The Star, No4tinghsm Poet, Manchester Eveniag News, totsned E787, ezclaaive of coal, for quite ap to the ezpec\ationc of the snd The Daily Graphic. which 5197 wac taken. A Butchery . ' Committee, who regret there Fc eo little Branch hss been opened s4 New Fletton. accommodation to serve oustomers, a WEEKLY PAPERS. —Lincoln Gazette, Lineolnshire Cbmniole, Boston Following the lead of a few other So- cimctursl defect they hope soon to Guardian, NoNngbsmcbire Guardian, Horacsetle News, Spsldiog Free Piece, oietiec of similar standing this Society 978members in the Newark Advertiser, Isle of Azholme snd Gsiusborough News, Sleaford Gsae4te, j remedy. Theresre is amamula4ing a Renovation Fend, Society, sn inoresce of 54 over the pre- Grsnthsm Journal, Exchange and ifart, The Speeuitor, Stamfoni Mercury, whish hcs now reached 568 having re- i vious quarter. Cscsen's Saturday Journal, Newcastle Chamicle, Leeds Mercary, Public Opinion, ceival 811 lxom last quarter's proStc. snd Co-operative Newa SCUNTHORPE. —Quarter ended BOSTON.—Forty-thud quarter ended Jane 2nd, 1891. ILLUSTBATED PAPERS.—The Graphic, Engineer, Building News„Figaro, April Sad, 1891. c. d. The Queen, Peach, Judy, Fsn, snd the IBustratal London News. a. d. Bales...... 2,674 11 6 Sales .~...... 8,240 14 8 Share Capiud...... 8,51.7 5 IO MAGAZINES. —Leicme Hour, Csceen'e Pamily Magazine, Chambers'c Journal, Share Capital ...... 4,872 17 9 Reserve Pond ...... 126 9 1 Good Words, New Review, Harper'e Mcgasine, Portnightly Review, The Cenbiry, Beeerve Pand ...... 81 0 0 Dividend ...... 0 2 9 English IBuauared Harper's Youag People, Niaeteenth Century, and Divideal ...... 0 I 6 Assets ...... 4,199 6 0 AB The Tear Boand.~, Assets ...... 5,049 7 8 The mete)Bo cheek system ie ctis nazi The sales show an increase of S492 this Society. Beceney it joinal the over the coneepondhtg quaiter of last , fmm whish last qaarter it year. There sre now 895 merabsm is ameival $10 Sa gd. dividend. An "EACH FOR HIhfSELF" AND "EACH FOR ALL" the Society, sn inoresce of 54 over thc "Annual item of business Trip" is one 4 Bears ss the idle msa is miauable, even so is he who shirks hia respoaabilffy previous quarter. be submitted to the General ifauing. to for the goal snd beneSt of o4bere. He is defrauding his fellows of what they GAINSBO ROUGH. —Seventy-eizth LOUTH. —Sixteenth quarter ended have s right to expect from him, and that is, hie hearty eo.operaffon in eontribat. quarter ended Jane 2nd, 1891, April 2nd, 189L ing his chare of esort to the summon good ol alk Whee a man joins the store, i4 s. d. a d. ic his bounden duty to be loyal and fsitbfu) io it. He cannot dicreyml this with- Baba...... 6,810 4 10 Sales ...... 1,185 4 8$ oat iniuryto himself aal others. To inustzate this Suppose two men join a cooiety. thinks Share Capital ...... 11,506 14 7 Share Capital ...... 886 2 10 One, who and feels 4here is eomeffnag gmnd and noble in 4he Beserve Fund...... 208 11 6 Reserve Fund ...... 82 0 0 movement —a something that shaB ultimately be a great basest to himself and Dtvideml ...... 0 1 il Dividend ...... 0 1 6 other; he hsa great faith in the power of the movement to help him snd his Aceete ...... 12,986 lo 10 Aerate ...... 1,278 10 7 icnows, sml on that faith he invests sn hs hsa ia ihe soricty, sml in sddsion lets hie Tha sales are ELIOO in excess ol the The sales chow an increase of 5150 rxl accumulate until it recchee s good mand cum. He has done tbic oaths soneafumdfug qaarter of lss4 year. over those of the conecpoanng quarter ~ssumphon that sn the o4hex member will be animahzl by the came desues and parity am m'iu* LSIO members in the of lse4 year. The Society'a position ie of motive as himself —in fscb that sn the mcmbere are co-opemhzc. On the am- Sooiekr, which hss began to eztenl ita eiated in the Report to be ~le. uaxy, the ooxer man hss joined fmm a pmely selfish motive, snd win not invest sml opratioaa tu Sm. ecum4ry rinagee. The number of members is 360, en in- ccaumly leave anything in the society. As a consequence, having Btt)e to kme, he ia ) indiserent ss mw Pcmuated imd eouductal crease of 18 over the preceding quarter. to the futsre etsbiTity of tbe society. He ie always for psymg the by a'aPariat aoaunittee, snd The Edacationsl Grant for the quarter dividual that esn be alueuaal out of the emmern, and for the cmsnest tmda is 51 8e. 6d. A Boot sal Shoe Depart- depreciation asd the amsnsat reserve fend, snd in akntkm wsl oaly tmde at the Forte tent 4~ with Comparative made coeiety just for a few goals he csnnox bay cheaper efmwheax This mea4. stocked msn mB make the Soaiety last reckless pxopocals in mansgemeak quarter. besidm bma goods, bss been opened, snd the calcu e utbwly regardless of thc fmma. Hia moffo ie, for Bm last quarte xeuahal 857 ga 74k Lrt me gei sn I can, let tbe future take care of itcslk" Now this msn does not LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QIIARTERLY RECORD
ee +s rmponefbiuty, aud ic doing s gross injustice to the other. Ife ia jeopsrdis- iug and trifling with the other msu'c property, sud although he msy not be rncgf;, committing su illegal act, he is committing a moral wrong against hic fellow- Boot a@6 shee DeparI, member. —d. Scottea. FREE SCHOOL LANE, CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATION. T is often ail&ed, —What need is there for sn educational department in a comp- I'-erative society answer, our movement create f I that is intended not only to for the ANNUAL TRIPS, in great variety! wealth, and to bring shoat a better divieionof it among the class who greatly help SAND SHOES to make it but get so little of it, but that it also aims to give men wider v&ewc, to beneat them inteuecbutuy, to elevate life snd make it more enjoyable. The love of amusement and recreation is inherent in au msnkiad. The intenigence which is natnrally keen needs educstioa to become developed. dn educated msn is better NOTICE. able to weigh evidence snd to form s correct judgment than one who hae receival no education. de instances of the ohsnge for the better whish even s limited degree of cultare will effect, lictea to the simple chorus of a cong sang by a camber BUY EARLY! of working-men brought together perhaps once s year only at s club sapper or SPLENDID STOCK! ~ome such gathering, snd then hear the came chores sang by the voicec oi a kaot of the same class of men in a factory who are members of s choral society, or glee Increasing Ssjcx in this Department cause crowdiug cu Saturday club, or singing class. Or sgiin with reading. Note Cbe practised intonation, the Nights. Members who cau make it couvenieni, please make your modulated inflection, the mescmul cadence in tbe vo&ce of the artisan who regu- the Axxisttcutc a chance larly reads aloud to hie Ieuow-workmen in the mess-room during the closing purchases on Saturday Afternoons, aud give uuuatec of the breakfast half-hour. Tet these men were once about on a level; Cc show ycu the Stock I the voice and the esr for music were alike present in su; the ability to read an article fmm a newspaper wss common enough. But eee what cultivstioa and constant practice have accomplished: the sweet hacmony of the song delights tbe esr of the most fastidious, snd thc improvui elocution renders the artiole intelligible BOOTS AND SHOES to afh But spurt from qaectioa of &sate, cduoetion of sn kinde ctimulstec and quickenc ttm eaconing faculty. Place within the reach of the members good literature; SUMMER WEA. give the working-riascec the same fseiTitiec for forming opinions on public questions POB R. that other riaceec hsve, snd they will become bauer Sited for taking that great part ia the government of this country towarde whioh everything eeemv to point. The futare of Sie eonntry will rest with ths great masses of the people to determine. Children's Buitcu sud Lace fo from lu. 11d. Girls' The Cramp of the anny of demoorscy is above ue and amund ne snd in our midst; (4 6), ; Nuggcied S is more audible now than it ever wse before. Iut as as co-operators mould snd (7 to 10), gc. lid. , do. (11 tc 1), Ss. lid. , Cbc very bast Boys' Wafer drill aright come of the forces that are to sway tbe future. The steadying power tights (11Cc 1), from Su. lid. , do. (Z Cc 5), 4u. Ild. Ladies' Csubmcxc over masses of men which the poceeccion of s large co-operative society exercieee Slippers, from ls. 10d. ; Piuiu Leather Slippers, from ls. Ild, best. cannot be over-ecumsted. The moral victory the members have sohieved noae in the trade; Ladies' Cashmere House Boots, from gx. bat themselves csn kaow. The temptstione to extravagance in times of good Ild. ; Ladies' tutde, and to dishonesty in bsd, none can tell but those who know what thouesnde Kid (Elasticu), Patent Cup, 4s. lid. ; Ladies' High-leg Kid Button, ef wortdug. men have been rescued from through this ruovement. —frrcm "d fcw uud Luce, fmm 5s. lid. ; Ladies' Levant, Lace aud Button, fxum fcuturcc cf pood Store dfaaapcmcaty' 4s. 11d. Elusiicu, from Se. lid. Gent'c Sunday Boots ; ' in ull shapes aud styles, from 5c. lid. ; Axmy Bluchers, Sewn, fxcm CLOTHING AND HOLIDAY CLUBS. 5s. 11d. ; Working Boots, Nailed, from 4a lid. Ladies' uud Gentle. men'a have in existence "clothing clubs, "which ia reality sre farms of Boots made io measure, lg. extra, one week's notice rc&Inixed. medit, thoagh at the same time it must be confessed they sre mediums for the traaeectiug of s lot of bacinece, particularly in tbe tailoring and furniture depart. ments t for when a working-maa hse to face a bill of cay Sa for s cuit of clothes, he turne faint. hearted st the pmspect of having to psy sway such s eum su st once, THE SOCIETY ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR and with oae etfort. But by s weekly contributiou of one or two shiuinge to the clothing club fund, tbe eum namui graduauy and almost impemeptibly —involving little hardship —is attained. 'Now, we iee no rescou why s fund co condacted wou&d not answer the purpoce oi qualifying s workiog-msn to suuusny take a holiday for a weal& or two, seeking rect he Concenfrated Garden Nanure, aad enjoy&scot in s change of cceaery. This, we believe, is regularly dane smoaget the millworkerc of lou&csehire, by the sid of a trip fund. In msuy instances, su this mi ht be sccompliehe l by the exerc&ce of s little more thrift in the expend&tare of ' pocket moucva' d el&an e of cc u ry breaks IN PENNY PACKETS in upon the monotony of life; bovid . , the bene&i& of change of sir &x cn&ver. sl y acknowledged. .k ain, none of uc reiilv know i&ow i"noraui we sre until we comi One Packet being iu contact with i&rigbicr intellects ih*u ocr ovn. W. doin does not t&el&uc cx- clueivelv to any particular corner ol ti&e iced. Oou&iuued i olsti»u from ili pcopl: sufFicient for a square of other diiirictv ii product&vc of nxrrowu ~ & I view; sn l parti*! — lcd mcc&c. 4&uu&naut' c~e&vrc Jaa&m intercourse ait'u c&rangers &c uoi bxd prxciicc lcr our couveicsiiousl poems, aud si p Tc yard of ground or a the came time malum ue eonvereaat with tbe methods adopted by other folk in the "straggle for existence. " dozen 4-in. or G-in. Sower pots. A REST DAY. AN ix the great iaetrument that pmduces wealth, . . . . therefore it is that we IN: sre not poorer, but richcr, because we have, through many agee, rectal from THE RELIABLE mw labear oae dsy in seven. Thai day is not lost; while indactry is easpeaded; wbne Che yleagh lies ia Cbe bmmr; while the Bxehuage ie silent; while ao smoke ~sesuds feme um faetmy& a yumese is going oa qmte as important to tbe wealth of aatiaaa as mty pxmuss which ia Sarforuuri oa mora basy days. bias, the machine VEGETA8LE 4 FLOWER SEEDS ef ma&ddnamb emnpaxwi mth which all the eontrivanese of the Watts sad the sxe wcrtbbum. is raysiring snd whanng up eo that he returns to his and Mta&w mch cfe&wm uueneec, ruth Besser cpcrita. m'db renewed corporal rigoar Of the Agricultural ~If uvar we are foraed to yieM tbe icxemcui ~. .. yhee among eommeuiri nauoas, ~shun yiebl n ust ta s raus of degenerate dwarfs fchrough exceemvc t&ut), bat to Horticultural Association LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
IIBAPEBY R MILLINERY ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE WITH QEPARTMENT. i' Mr. J. F. HARSTON, Assis we beg to remind our members that we sre holding well snd CHEMIST, choicely-assorted Stocks, suitable to the demands of the present Summer Season, st prices whish cannot be beaten outside of our own Central Drug Stores, Store; this fact is consrmeil by the members' appreciation of these departments during the psst quarte. Reference to the Drapery HIGH BRIDGE, Department sales will chew the increase of business done is the greatest we have hsd '„".', yet the pleasure to report. Since stocktaking and BRANCH, HIGH STREET, („",„,, , ) our stocks have been carefully sorted up, snd we therefore confidently appeal for s continuance of support snd s eall from those who, as yet, LEZCOL5, have not given their own shop s fair triaL Below we enumerate s TO SUPPLY MEMBERS OF THIS SOCIETY few lines to be found in the various branches of the Departments. WITH Dress Department: Patent Medicines, Drugs, and Chemicals, Dispensing Prescriptions, Toilet snd Articles, Trusses, Elastic Stochngs, snd Surgical Black Casbmeree, from 61d. to 2s. d. Fancy lit Appliances of every description, Paints, Oils, Colors, Varnishes, snd Black French Merinoes, 1s. 6&d. to ss. 6d. sll other articles sold a Chemist st the lowest prices now Coloured Csshmeres snd Merinoes, ls. 8d. to 1s. by selling; lltd. aud oS' which the usual dividend will be allowed. A.ll other New Coloured and Black Dress Goods in Stock, with Trimmings, Buttons, Ac., to match. Unssxrxxe, 1e. llld. to lee. 6d. each, s very reliable Cover in from 4s. Restive Cloih, 8d. i THE CO-OPERATIVE NEWS Sxmxnves —A few Skirt lengths, very cheap. EIanohester Department: AND A Large snd New Stock of Prints snd other New Materials snit- gtauruIII af pssariuteif )uitustrII. able for Washing Dresses. Oxfonl Shirtings, Sheetings, White, Scoured, snd Grey Calicoes. A few pairs of Soiled Blankets ohesp. I'ke OIkcial Organ of Industrial and Provident Co-operative Societies. EIillinery Department: The Stock in this Departments too, hss bees carefully replenished This Paper msy be obtained at the General 08lces, or st sny of the recently snd consists of sll the Newest Goods in Jackets, Branches; snd Boys sell it in Silver Street sud Free School Lane, Msntles, Wsterproofs, Corsets, Trimmings, snd general every Saturday eveding. Millinery. We arc 'able to execute Millinery Orders with despatch by competent hands. Xn the DRESSMAKING DEPABTMENT it it scarcely necessary 00NFZ0TIOiVZRY DZPARTMZiV T. to solicit orders, ss the sstisfaotion given to our members who The greatest variety of 1d. articles ia the also have entrusted us with their work, hss had the effect, through city; of Fancy Bread oi all kinds. recommendation, of inundating us with more business than we have hsd facilities for executing; however, se the season is getting Don't forget to try our oelebrated 6d. Lunch Cakes in plum, seed, advanced, we are now in s position to give the best attention to aiid rice. future orders. Upwards of 800 sold weekly Mourning orders are promptly attended to. Also our Rich Plum snd Seed Bread at 6d. , ls., ls. M., snd ls. 4d. SPECIAL NOTICE. —We hope to arrange for our BALF-PEARLY Speeislities in Rich Birthday snd Welling Cakes made to order, OLEABANCE SALE to be held about the middle of the snd tastefully ornamented aivl decorated. month ofAugust. H ORDERS PROMPTS sxTTErcDED TO TAILORlNG DEP ARTMENT. PIG FKKDERS, 'We LINCOLN sre now showing a large selection of WOOLLENS in all the TRY THE CO-OPERATIVE Newest snd most Fashionable Designs, carefully selected from the best makers. REssiDY-MADE DEPARTMENT. ', ', Lfen's Star:: Meal. Tweed Suits, from 17s. 6d. to 85s. ; Pig Men's Black Worsted Suite of superior cut snd style. SOLE PROPBIETORS i Men's Cricket and Boating Shirts. kfen's Tennis Jackets. THE Lf~lCOLN CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY Men's Cricket and Boating Trousers, Men's Alpaca and Russell Cord Jackets. THE SOCIETYS PATENT STEAM OVENS aud DOUGH Boys' Gslstes or Washing Suits. Boys' Sailor snd Jersey Suits, Ac. Our Juvenile Department is not to be surpassed by sny house KNEADER ensure MACHINE-MADE BREAD. in the City. ABSOLUTELY PURE r WATEBPBOOF8, WATERFBOOFS. WATEBPBOOFS. FREE FBCM ADULTERATION I i yiorslwsmtis. Macintosh it will be worth your while tc pay as s "-':-;~; kgaofaehag's Celebrateil P.P.O. Free from odour, sre THOROUGHLY KNEADED I I I I thoroughly reliable. BY MACHINEBY I!! edff@':-:.4fefÃttf'ng and Fancy Department. Pure Digestive BROWN BREAD '~cfsst made from Qxauulated ~ jsigt: Hats in great variety. Straw Hats in great Sfesl of the Finest Englisli Wheat. -:description. Shirts, Collars, Ties, Handker- ' Moist i Svireet? Vlixoiesoexe! MuSers, Umbrellas, Ac., Ac. ta' Soliteires, Cuff Linlis, Scarf Pins, Studs, Splendid Brands of Flour from the Society'a Roller Milli— ka:. in the Intent designs. "C.P."' "S.P." "S.Q." LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
Goods made by the following Productive Societies may be obtained from the Central Stores, Silver Street, or at any of the Branches.
Leicester Co-opevstive Boot and Shoe THE AIREDALE CO-OPERATIVE iYanufactuI'ing Society, Limited. WARS'FED
ASK IN THE BOOT DEPARTMENT FOR THE NAIIIUFACTURING SOCIETY, LIMITEO,
AMELIA. BLE MAKERS OF ORESS 6009S IN GREAT YARIETY. "ZA.GLE BBAXD" Samples sent Societies on application. Profits shared by Workers, Porehasers, snd Shareholders. ADDRESS: BOOTS Axr) SHOES. THOKPSOE'S MILL, Fnlton Street, Bradford.
' HEBDEN BRIDCE FUSTIAN MANUFAGTURINC IIIPV O'0VE]VIIIQY VH-OPEQQ'I'IVI, CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, LIMITEO, 74tch Manu fact@i-img Sceiefy-, KANUFACTURERS OF LIMITED.
t:-orle, Moleskins, Ve/ve(eeoc, Aszzrs: THE Lfzcotz Co.orzzarfvs Socfzrr, arzo Taz Mazcazsvzz azn Scorrma Co-oxzzanvz Waorasara Socmrfas. T'w'it18), 4|"-. fQ Q7'52$ %@I'i93$ ) Hound ENGLISH SILVER LEVER WATCHES sent to any aldteee on ALSO reaeipt of Peat-oSee Order, or onler fmm the Secretary of a egiahwed Co-operative Society, from SSS. Sd. To prevent delay, sll pamele, letters, asd telegnzsa REAOY-MAGE CLOTHING ahoefd be edrewwd to the Seemtsry, M, bfoent-afreet, Coventry. szv'. PRESENTATION WATCHES male to order. WATCH Samples snd prices on application. Agents f Co-operative Wholesale CLUES aapplied thmegh the Perniahfsg Departnumt Societies, Ksnchester, Newcastle, London and Glasgow. TWO w a IrIEST-CLILSS or A CEETIPICdTES swarded to above Society by Watch Rating Department, Xew, on Two GOLD NUT CLOUGH, HEBDEN BRIDGE. ' KEILRSS LEVERS, December, 1899, aal biay, 1891 Nea SS,541 and 59,6gg,
Leicester Co-operative Hosiery Manufacturing Society, NUTRITIAL KAEER8 GF Shirts, Pants, Socks, Stockings, COCOANCHOCOhAIZ AND OTHER HOSIERY GOODS. Cranbonrne Street bIillmv I~eieefster XIIAINES IIITTON. LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
0 0)cubi'RtlVIl 10 tlSII cl LI M ITED. Central Of5ces —I, BALLOON STREET, MANCHESTER. Branches —NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE and LONDON.
rative Wholesale Society is a federation of nearly 1,000 Retail Co-operative Societies, representing vidual metnbers. Its Share, Loan, and Reserved Capital amount to One and a Half Millions Sterling. u the trade of Wholesale Dealers, Manufacturers, Bankers, Shippers, Ac., and does an annual business i0. The following goods are its chief productions, and they can be purchased through any Co-operative Society. CO-OPERATIVE PRODUCTlONS:— BOOTS AND SHOES. be . ty manufactures annually, at its Leicester and Heckmondwike Works, over One Million Pairs of the ; '.=af" Brand of Boots and Shoes. These Boots are made from the very best materials, and for durability, BISCUITS, SWEETS, kc. .:.":tions of the Crurnpsall Works have so rapidly grown in favour, that in order to meet the increasing manufacturing capacity of the Works has recently been doubled. All the principal kinds of Biscuits nd special attention is given to the purity and excellence of the materials used. Boiled Sweets, barns, and Marmalade also form an important part of the production of these Works. WOOLLENS. r's Mills at Batley, Yorkshire, are replete with the most modem machinery, and there are now being ed some of the choicest patterns in Fancy Worsted Trouserings and Tweeds, also Indigo Blue Serges and Woaded Black Worsted Coatings. READY-MADE CLOTHINQ. y's, Youth' s, dnd Juvenile Suits are made up in a variety of styles and qualities at the Leeds and Batley Factories. orders are attended to with accuracy and despatch, and correctly fitting garments may be relied upon. SOAP, Ice. nsnufsctured at the Lurham Works is noted for its genuine qualities, the aim being to turn out a good cn =. . cle. Dry Soap, Black Lead, and sundry goods are made at the Crumpsall Works. An analysis of the Soap places it in a most favourable position in comparison with that of other makers.
T A, COFFEE, AND COCOA DEPARTMENT, LONDON, ll 4nds ok~ Mixed, Packet, and in Original Packages. Reliable and of the best qualities. Coffee Mixtures, Wheatsheaf Brand. " Cocoas —Pure Concentrated Extract of Cocoa, kc.
,' Rnddoek a Keyworth, printen4 High Street and Silver Street, Lincoln. 16 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
FU R N IS H I N G DEPARTMENT 7 Ixl this Department sll kmds of Furntture osn be made to order by workman on the premtses, esttmstes gtven snd members worlred to. We sre prepared to supply good Elm Co%us, from 36/- to 66/-, or polished Osk ditto, from g,4 and upward executed on the shortest possible notice. Funerals furnished throughout. Spseht) attention is called to our splendid Stock of Crockery, which is now one of the best assorted in the City. FURNITURE. 3 s. d. TIN GOGIPM. Flock Beds, complete, 6ft. 6in. by4ft. Sft. from 0 19 6 Milk Isutation Walnut Suite, m RePP. Tsp ' , Ssucepsns, from gc. Sd. toss. 6d. 10 0 Panther Beds „o 2 13 0 from 4ld. to 10sd. Bottles, 6d. Oil Sot !-. Wool Mattressee, 16 3 Hair-seating. m 0 Dripping Tins, from Sd. Bread Mahogany.&yeCouohee,h in uf. ... St „„. ~ ... 60 „„„„0Wschups, from lc. Cullenders, fmu
' 8 --". . "; ;"" """~™0 0 0 4ft. 6iu. .., ...... 17s. 9d., 21e., 1 16 0, Csndlestiokc, from 4+1. Dutch Ovens Baesinette Persmbclstors ...... 30s. to 3 0 0 I Dust Pane, from 7d. Pie Dishes, from 6 mmers, Grain
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ' ! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 4ft. Sm.~ ~ 19 0 I ~ Stained, ~ in Leather. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~a Rosy Chairs, „1 ~ ~~ P',~ W bt~ t d d D Tbl,~ ~~ ~I~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~ g 0m Teaea ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ S' Mahogany or Birch,~ Sft.~ (Bevelled Plate ~~ ~~ ~~ Heir-seating ~ ~ ~ 8 CChsim, ~ Sfahogsny, ~ ~ 0 t ~ ~ ~~ Glass and ifarble ToP) ..~ ~ ~ .~ ~ .~ .. .~ .~ .~ 7 o ~~ .. . . ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ge.e~~ ~ 9d. ~snd 0 10 g Jugs )gets of 8) .~ ~ ..~ ~ ~ 0"r ~ ...... ~ .. C 6 ~ ... Chesth st Drawers,D ~ Sfshogany or Bimh,~ 3ft. 6u . 2 0 0 ~ ~ ~ ~ m e ~ ~ 3 7 6 Cape snd Ssucen ~ Teaea ~ Nen Patent Base Rocking Chaos,~ Carpet ~ ~~~ ~a ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Wd atDsvm~~ m~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . 3 12 6 ~ ~ ~ ...... Backs snd Seats . . .. 0 17 9 ~ ~ Cake. . . 014 ...... Basme from 1d to5d Custard ~7~ ...... ".. " 9, DollDolly Tabs,T b Osk,Osk 4s.4 lid11d. Drakes frc Walnut snd Gold, and Black snd Gold Tea Pots, from Std. to 4s. 6d. Cream Jc" Ovmvsautefs. , from 1 7 6 Cheese . . . . I Stands, from Sd...... WWsehh TTubs,b 44e. 1s. to 5s. lid. Pia .u r Walnut Overmsntels, Sfb 6in. by Sft. 6in. , 4 each. Teapot Stands Ic. Match Snh ~, ' ugc, from Id. each. CltfrClothes Horses,H 1s.1 1id.ld'tto ls. 94.gd Crees Sts Oak Overmsntclc, Sfc. 6in. by Sft. 9in., 4 I I Trinket Sets, from gc. 10d. to r:« loc. 9d. .."., S . 4 t
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REGISTERED DYDEE THE IJYD USTEIAL AJVD I'EO V'IDENT SOCIETIES' ACT.
QBJHCTS QF THE SQCIETV,—First, It provides its Members aud the General Public with Bread, Flour, Grocerv Provisions, Drapery, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Butchers' Meat, Coals, Crockerv, Hardware, Furniture, &c.
Second, It seeks the domestic, social, and intellectual advancemen't of its Members.
Annual Business over $147,000. Number of Members, 6,589. Share Capital, $74,759 Bs. 6d.
Bananas —THE LINCOLN AND LINDSEY BANKING COMPANY, Lftssrafs.
The REPORT- & VALANCE SIIKET for- the fzo4h Quarter. ENDED OCTOBER 7th, 1891.
smeary. fhspcry. Boots &9 Shoes. Tailoring. Furnishing. Total. Purchases from the Co-operative Wholesale Society...... 66,884 61,069 8473 8101 $463 88,980
from other' Co-operative Sources 80 187 410 77 39 808
Value of Goods produced by this Society and grown . 818,646. Animals Slaughtered during the Quarter: —Beasts 121; Sheep 314; Pigs 209; Calves 12; Lambs 37; Total 698.
Central Stores nnd Ofaces —SILVER STREET AND FREE SCHOOL LANE, LINCOLN. Eo. 1 Branch —BRACEBBIDGE. No. 8 Branch —SAXILBY. 2 „—BURTON BOAD& LINCOLN. 9 „—BAGGEHOLME ROAD, LINCOLN. 3 „—SHAEESPEABE STREET, LINCOLN. 10 „—EEWLAED STREET WEST, LINCOLN. —BIPOE STREET, LINCOLN. 11 „—BABDEEY. —WELBOURN. 12 —NORTH STREET, HOBNCASTLE. 6 —EIETHERIEGHAX. 18 „—SOUTH STBEET, SLEAFOBD. 7 —Qt. EOBTHERE TERR., LINCOLN 14 —HIQH STBEET, LINCOLN
The AXihUA. L MEKTlX6 will be held in the Large Hall, on Monday Evening, Xovember 2nd, ISM, The Chair to be tahen by the PresirIentv at a -80 p-rn- PROGRdhMME OF BUSINESS.
1 "Xiaates af thc last Iitshfsmly bfmting. " 6. !t nnolution passed at the last Gaea&el Eaagug of the Educational Depart 'ba '9., " !bat«dan;of Xc«jÃjsa&baxs. " ment, hald yuly 98th, 1891,«fff moved by bfr. Hall and sccondcd by v frfr. 0 Ths«sby, vhs. i "That tha p&dusmtbmsf Grant be incraaaal fmm 8 &STba'BS&mt au4'~ 11to 9$ per cast:" 7- o Itfaatfas af fh&orkeep'ar st G&metal' Kaabngs; snd Pour bfambcrs .to give oot '*ajipeal, 61 ms babatf'LpsuaL~ by Co~tars tbraaghoat tha .Yottssg papaw; imd pear so Count Vatj«at Xlactlon of Ofgccsc. acsmtsT„Ssr the sapparl. sf bfr. ff.T. Crssfg and bus. Cmlg, lu their old 8. "Ibssstaa+mc far Five Committee-mau and an dadisario 9. "Blactiau of Five Ifambcm of Xdacatlonsl Committee, " 19. "asl& other asinass!. " Lincoln Equitable Co-operative Industrial Society, Limited.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Mr. WM. REYNOLDS, President ...... 26 Mr. JOSEPH MARTIN ...... 2e iver. KV. B. HOWARD 2e Mr. GEORGE HARTLEY, Treasurer. ... Cfr. EDWARD LASCELLES ...... '&6 'Mr. J. GAMBLE...... 26 2Ir. DUNCAN MeINNES, Seereiery . . 26 'Mr. J. J. KERSHA1V...... 24 'Mr. .f. W. CODLING. .. M . WJI. COULSOiV ...... '&6 *Mr. J. BROADBERRY...... 24 Aomrese —Mr. GEORGE RICHARDSON, Mr. JAS. ORANGE. Cess&Re —Mr. FRED STEPHENSON.
The figures after the names indicate the number of Committee Meetings attended; Zii having been held. Those marked ' retire bet ere eligible for re-election, except Mr. J. J. KERSHAW, whe does sot seek re-eieeiien. Mr. BROADBERRY beieg else&ed president ei, feei fjeerterly Yfeeiieg occasioned se extreerdh&e&y vseescy in the Committee, which wee filled by electing i&Ir. SMALLER for the unesp&ied peri ef Ifr. BROADBEBRY'S ierm of of5ee. Ae he did nei enter upon efdee sntn the end of the ejssrter, hfs name is oet on this Balance Sheet, bst it will appear in the eeet. DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES. Booze...... Mee re. COULSON, LASCELLES, & CODLIiVG. Dse&ser & Tereoe&se. .Messrs. MARTIN, HOWARD, &' REYNOLDS. Bere&&Be&...... Messrs. BBOADBERIIY, HOWARD & MARTIN. Fisivcs...... Mess&s. McINNES, HARTLEY, & COULSOVi. Bemersee ...... Mee»e. KERSHAW, GAMBLE & REYNOLDS. Geoeeer...... ihfeeere. KERSHAW, BROADBERBY, & GAIIBLE. Csee ...... Messrs. HOWARD, GAMBLE & CODLING. Bee&iso & Live Srecs. .Messrs. H&IRTLEY, LASCELLES, & REYiVOLDS. COMMITTEE'S R EPORT. To THE MEMBERS, We beg to submit to you the 190th Qusrterley Report aud Balance Sheet. The total Receipts of Goods sold during the Querter is 846,595 9s. Bd. being an increase of 88,099 8s. 7'. over last Quarter, and 29,566 176. 9td. over the corresponding Quarter of last year. The net profit on the Quarter'e Business is 84,966 Os. 6)d. , which sum will allow 81,094 19s. llkd. for Interest, E8,570 Os. Od. as Dividend, being ls. 9d. pez k', on Members' purchases, and $98 106. Sd. being 8d. per 8 on purchases of Non-Members; 895 Ss. Sd. being 9C/. per annum for depreciation of Branch snd Cottage Property; 894 9s. 6d. being 10$. depreciation of Fixed Stock; 856 4e. 9d. being 5/. depreciation of Milling Plant; 856 Ss. Sd. for Educational Purposes; aud 840 15s. 9d. to Reserve Fund. 917 persons have joined the Society within the Quarter, 69 have withdrawn, and 6 forfeited as per Rile 6, making the present number 6,589, being sn increase of 149 over last Qnarter. In response to s requisition numerously signed by the working-classes of Bassinghsm and neighbouring villages, we held recently at Carlton-le-Moorland snd Bassingham two publicmeetingson Co-operation, both of which were well attended, The interest evinced, and the promises of support received have induced ns to purchase st Bassinghsm a dwelling-house snd garden, together with land facing the village street, npon which site business premises will be built 'suitable for a Branch Store and Bakery. The desire for Co-operation has been growing for years in this district, from difFerent parts of which we have several times previously been solicited by inembezs of the Society and othezs, to open s Branch, buf have refused, deeming in each instance the time inopportune for such a step tobe taken. Now, however, we sre satisfieil that the investment of capital in a Branch Store will be remunerative to the Society and beueficial to the inhabitants of the 'disfzict. From this new centre, our vane will be able to cover a fairly populous neighbourhood, extending in one direction to the outer limit of the area worked by the Welbourn Branch. We hope and believe, the results from this undertaking will thoroughly justify our expectations. Experience has shown that the plan of opening Branches in the villages, adopted by the Society many years sgo when it was in s straggling posikion, and continued ever since, has been attended with results varying in kind snd in degree, but mutually beneficia to city and country members. When the commodious new Boot snd Shoe Department in Free School-lane was opened, your Committee considered it would provide sufficient accommodation foz the trade of the Society for a number of years. The stock was carefully selected by the Manager, neszly entizely. from Co-operstive workshops, and wss considered by competent judges superior in quality to similar classes of goods of private manufacturers offered for sale in the city. Auginented sales have since been recorded quarter after quarter. The retail sales last quarter were $887 higher in atnount than those of the corresponding quar ter of 1890, snd 8689 more than the receipts of the last quszter's business done in the old shop. The wholesale izanssctions from the Stock Boom to the Branches meanwhile have increased from 8800 to 8864 per quarter, and the average ratio of increase points upwards yearly, while the profit made by the department, as a whole, is very satisfactory. Under these gratifying circumstances, therefore, we have to report that, much sooner than we expected, it has become nsoessary to provide more room, both for the retail andwholesale brariches ofthh business. We have considered several ways of doing this, snd have adopted a plan which will involve the expenditme of not more than 8100. Until the shop is enlarged, we ssk the Members to make their purchases, as far as possible, in the early part of each week, as the Department is much crowded every week end. fkcting upon Che resolution passed at s recent. General Meeting, directing us to invest capital from time to time in Limited Companies, we have securoil 8400 of ordinary' Shaza Capital in Buston, Prostor & Co., Ltd. , snd further, we have purchased on Feserve Fund &Account, Five One Hundred'flvh'pei'caftt'. Xh&bsntfrzos m tho same Company. This purchase brings our investments of this fund, in guaranteed securities, up to 88446 5s. Od. The extensions at Msthezhtgham ara now finishml, and the Branch is being worked on wholesale lines. The alterations and additions st Welbourn are approaching completion, as also are those at Ssxilby. Ls intimated in a previous report, we hope soon to provide more accommodation for the growing basin'sss st Slsaford, wh'ere the trade receipts for the four quarters ended Octobor 6th, 1891, were 81,585 in excess of the previous four quarters. The zesources of this Branch, in respect to rolling stock, warehouse room, cellarag, snd shedding, aze now taxed to the uttermost, snd will shoztly be quite inadequate for dealing with the trade, the prospective inorease of which is likely to be as great as the increase last year. The new streets being built off High-street, St. Peter-at-Gowfs, snd the prospective increase of population, together with our existhrg largo membership in this part of the city, looked at in connection with the High-street Branch sales, which have now reached an amount about as high ss Che shop accommodation csn desi with, have induced as to request Members living in the neighbourhood to attend the Quarterly jjfsstfng' and express their views on the ailvisabiliiy, or otherwise, of establishing in High-streeC 6 much larger Branch, comprising shops foz gzccozijffs&hprzffvbnons, confectionery, butchers' meat, , and greengzoceries. We are of opmion, if such course be considered advisable, a smCablo plass mighC jfa ubtainod, and the present, Brunch could then be 1st or sold. 6 glance at the Crude receipts for the last four quarters wiR fdzow how hucdsquat64&jnzts promises wiB soon become for the Crade that is likely to be done or that ought to be done by the Society in this part of Chs town, evan if a'Rtsnsji Ooutinusd to be con6ned entirely to ths limited line of business oarried on in the existing one. Au aifornafivc schema Cu Chug above'onfjinek, epuulfibe the, opening of mors Branches, and there is 6 good deal to be said in its favour, but when the difficujty of getthtg prenmiss m pofntihsuf, ieictly:. smtsbh for Msmbezs, and the expenses of wozkmg a number of separate shops are considered, Cho balance seems to us to bs m fitvocfz of a'-jarjjaz ~h where savszal businesses sonM be carried on uudez one roof and one Manager.
Dr. SHARE CAPITAL ACCOUNT. Cr.
s. d. d. To Withdrawals . 4,(49 5 4 By Capnal av pcr Inst Balance Sheet il, i(i'& l(i 9 7&(U 0 u Forfeits on Withdrawals deducted from Fired Stock Account 7 I 3 „ Interest on 12 th Quarter „Forfeit on Shares purchased. . I'& 0 Dividend on 120th Qusrt! r 3 gcg (i „21, Deposits to Building Account 'it 5/- each 53 15 0 u Contnbutioue. s,bgg 13 (i ., Fines 1!( 11 „Allowed for Dividend snd Interest but not reqmred ...... 08 2 ll „Present Claims of Members 74,759 3 6 279,374 16 11 679,374 16 11
Dr. LOAN CAPITAL ACCOUNT.
s. d. s. d. To Withdrawals !111. 10 By Loans a per la t Balsceo Sheet IG,USI 19 10 „Present Claims . . IG.C80 14 0 „ Interest ss pcr. Iax(. Balance oheet log b 2 „Contributioue 955 I 10 217,19'& 9 10 217,192 9 10
FIXED, ROLLING, AND LIVE STOCII ACCOUNT.
Previous Additions Additions by Society's Total Depreciation Al'. &wc l by last From Fe s, Total Balance. Cost. this Quarter. own Workmen. Cost. prev(ously allowed. Balance Si(cck '(' c. I& pree(stiuu. Nuuunal Value. s. d. s. d. e. d. 2 s. d. s. d. d. s. d. 8J&06 4 79 12 0 0 0 8,285 16 8 4,339 2 0 JG U 6 '&I 19 I Gu(i 9 11 3,779 6 9
MILLING PLANT ACCOUNT.
Previous Additions Total Depreciation Allowed by last Total Bale.uc. . Cos4. this Quarter. Cost. previously allowed, Bslunce Sheet. Deprec&atiun. bonnuai ( slue 2 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 8 e. d. 2 =-. d. d. 6,178 19 3 0 0 0 o,178 19 3 622 19 3 57 0 0 (i79 IU 3 4,4'JI(J Dr. RESERVE FUND. Cr.
s. d. 8 s. d To Penny Bank Treat 41 10 2 By Balance as per last Balance Sheet 3,455 7 0 ~ I'& u Balance 3,568 19 14 „Forfeits an Shares purchssed 3 U „Mowed by last Balance Sheet 5'& 7 44 „Mowed for Dividend snd Interest but not required. .. 99 & ll
$3 610 9 34 23,610 9 34
Dr. MEMBERS' PROPERTY ACCOUNT. Cr. s. d. )' 'po Amount advanced on Property ss per last Balance Sheet ...... 18,231 16 10 By Bepaymen(s ss per Cash Account (I'& I 7 8 Cash sdvssced on ProPerty as Per Cash Account ...... 480 3 6 u Less Interest 183 17 0 485 10 8 u Balance owing to the Socieiy. .. I8,276 9 8
218,712 0 4 218,712 0 4
Dr. I AND AN&D BUILDING ACCOUNT. Cr.
Additions tbi» Depreciation Allowed Total Pre eu(, Property. Previous Cost Quarter. Tots I Cost. Previously all'wd. l((e(, Qusner. Dei rec&at!uo. Nummsl Value. s. d. s. d. s. d. 8 d d I. Stores. . . . I'&, 976 5 11 22,!)76 5 11 2 's i. 7 u '-', in I. '» (':)0 I( I Ceniral ... . i ' Braeebridge 639 I 9 639 I !I 9o IU ) )!! lt 0 Newport 928 11 7 !928 ll 7 149 u lu I li (. ( 7it, 3 Shakespeare Street...... , 645 I 6 545 I (i 102 4 U 5 7 !J Il). 11 9 9 Bfpon Street 1,187 10 10 1,187 10 10 188 18 4 4 9 195 3 I 992 7 9 882 0 9 Sll 10 0 I,P93 10 9 96 7 0 418 8 101 5 3 992 5 6 1,041 19 6 214 18 6 1,256 18 0 124 14 6 514 9 180 9 3 1,126 8 g Orsat Northern Terrace .... 905 6 11 905 5 11 88 6 11 5 2 3 93 9 2 811 16 9 584 6 4 113 17 2 698 8 6 91 10 10 3 I 6 94 12 4 603 11 776 16 0 776 16 0 123 5 6 4 I 9 127 7 8 649 8 9 Nawland Street Wast...... 547 8 11 547 3 11 87 10 11 217 6 90 8 5 456 15 6 Bardnay 633 0 10 638 0 18 Vl I 10 8 10 7412 I 6lig 8 9 Httsastshs( ...... 759 4 6 759 4 6 56 18 6 4 8 0 61 5 s 697 18 0 Scqgg 14 7 2,853 14 7 66 19 4 14 6 0 81 5 4 ',272 9 3 ". 617 18 I 817 18 I 26 I 7 314 U 29L5 7 588 2 6 Pne Sahoal yaue ...... 598 16 0 593 16 0 95 11 9 3 2 3 98 14 0 495 2 0 Gas Street ...... 276 4 11 276 4 11 44 5 11 I 9 3 45 15 Jgo 9 9 Water(dde North&...... „... 7,225 11 Il 27 I 0 ~ 7,252 12 11 411 13 0 76 15 0 lbg 8 O 6.764. 4 11 1&286 15 9 1,236 15 9 134 3 6 611 6 190 15 0 1,046 0 9 564 18 I 564 13 I 10 10 I 8 9 3 13 19 4 550 13 9 North Hykaham IFarm) .. 1&286 18 0 72 0 9 1,308 13 9 7 5 8 713 9 14 19 0 1,293 14 9 410 0 0 410 0 0 41Q 0 0 110 0 0 110 0 0 Iffk 0 0 6 8 BIP59 7 5 $47,TII 4 1 $4,831 IS 11 6245 13 3 65,077 6 dt42 693 1V:11 " Dr. O E N l .. A. I& STA FEIfRN'!'. Cr. a. (l. a. d. 8 . u. 'I'o !i'i:ire C,ipital 74.7. 9 i)v Stock, Grocery '2.922 13 c . Loan Capital lb. SO 14 0 Drapery and ili,'lmci :I 79!I 3 Penny Bank Depo) it G.So 3 3 a Boot and Shoe 2344 9 7 .. Reserve Puni 3,:&f)O 13 ll Butchering .. . . '&79 )1 ., Branch ilsna era' Bun! GOO 5 Coals 419 17 0 Uslnuce ol Congress I'und o5 0 0 Tailoring ... 4,459 11 11 , Balance 4,&266 0 Gt Furnishing .. 1,779 I 1 No. I Branch 247 13 11 No. 396 0 No. 8 307 7 7 No. 4 258 0 No. 5 513 2 No. 6 643 19 No. 7 2!)6 3 0 No. S 371 0 i) No. 9 817 12 ij No. 10 275 I 6 iVo. 11 35G 8 6 No. 12 508 I 0 Vo. 13 1,197 10 10 No. 14 157 5 7 Mill .. 2,844 I 8 24,739 0 I ., Buililing and Lenil Account 42,093 17 11 tlembers' Property Account 1&),276 9 3 „ Fixe&i Stock Accouut !1,770 u 9 , Milling Plant Account 4,49&2 0 0 Shares in "Co-operative IVholesale Society" ...... 2,750 0 0 "Hebden Briilge Fu tisn Co-op. Society" 20 "The 0 0 Co operative Insurance Coiupany ' .. 50 U 0 "The Leice. ter Hoa.'ery Co op. Society ' ... "00 0 0 "The Co-operative Printui" Society " '&5 0 0 "Paisley Manufacturing Co- &perstive Society 58 12:) -London Productive Society'* .. 10 0 0 "Thomson 8 Son's Proiluciive Society" 100 0 0 "Co operative Ne&vspsper Society" .. IU 0 0 "Cradley Heath Chain Maker's -ociety" 10 0 0 "Dudley Bucket anl I'sailer Society ' 30 0 0 Airedale iVorated Society,'" .. Liucolu Corporation Redeemable Stock ',410 I) 0 . Debcuturea —Ruston, Proator &2 Co. , Liiuiied 10th o 0 Cash in Bank, and Cashier's hands 0,77i lO )U $107,479 11 I $107,479 11 I
Dr. PROFlT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Cr. 8 s. d. s. d. s. d. By Balance disposable 4,966 0 61 By ProBt, Grocery Drapery and Millinery...... 2o4 14 Boot and Shoe ...... 316 5 11 Butchering ...... 413 7 8 Coals ...... 91 14 5 Tailoring ...... , . 220 19 8 Furnishing...... 127 Gi 4 Nu. I Branch ...... 137 9 Sd No. 2 „ ...... 157 19 10 No. 8 „ ...... 188 2 I No. 4 „ ...... 164 11 6$ ilo. 5 „ ...... 177 3 0) No. 6 „ ...... 178 9 I No. 7 . I „ ...... 121 1 I No. 8 „ ...... 95 0 ll ( No. 9 „ ...... )48 3 Bd (77 No. IU „ ...... vls187 16 Bt No. 11 „ ...... 95 6 No. 12 „ ...... 95 8 7 No. 18 , ...... 179 18 51 No. 14 „ ...... 118 18 54 bbdy...... 289 Ib St 4,498 4 lt „R.nts, as per Cash Account ...... 67 9 0 „Rules ...... snd Cards ...... , ...... 4 5 „Interest from Members' Preperty Account , . 188 17 02 Interest an'd...... „ Divbbmd, Hebden Bridge Fustian Society ...... 6 10 9& Dudley Bucket )tud Fmtdsr Society...... 8 15 0)i Cooparativtt Pr&b&ttug. Sdststy .'...... 6 92 Leieaetes Hosier'y : '.. IBm&isty .', .'...... 7 18 OF Airedale Byoratad . tbsn)457 .. .. .;;...... 6 8 7r Piisleykbtaa~ Siieiety...... 12 8& 8 52 L'metda snd Lands)F Btutbtng Comtvmy
B4,966 0 %4 ii%%7, PROPOSED DISPOSAI OF PROFIT.
I 6 e d. 6 . 3 To Interest on Share Capital e(m 0 0 ilv!!clem(e 1'.pn-v)'1 4!ni&i & 64 , ln(crest on I.oan Capital l,n , int(ree(, on P nny Bank Depoe&te . . . . ,') i. „Interest on Branch 51ansgere' Bonds .. 6 l, i '& 3 (& ' I 1 3 i ' Dividend on Ri0,600, at I/O in the 6 ;3, 70 () n Non-Members' Dividend on 66oo a(, 66 in (be .t: lu sr „64 per cent. Deprecist&on of Brsncl& nnd Cotta ( Property :! u „10 per cent. Depreciation of Fi(ed Stocl( , . : per cent. Jiilling Plant &( 1 „of )I ii ' ., Educational Grant, 11 p"r cent of Ne&, Pro(i!, Iieserre Fund !I) l. !& ~
64,9&36 0 ('& 24 &hh n
An(li( 6 en 3 3( on(i (mrcc(, 0(!ob(r "'&nd, 16(01 GEO. IcICHAHDSON. JAS. ORANGE.
EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE. 3'Mr. J. W. CODLING, President ... 0 '&Sr. G. BACON...... ( Air. A HUDDLEST()NE *Mr. G. RICHARDSON, Treasurer 4 Mr. F. NEEDLEY ...... 1 Afr. iV. WOOD!IOIISE Mr. I. W. TOWLER, Secretary. .. . . Mr, C, TBEAVETT...... 1 Mr. iV. LOVAT'I' "(ktr. C. PICKERING 5 *Mr. W. HEWSON
Tim gguree after the names &ndicste t'us number of Comm&ttce Mee(in e stt nd l. hvo havinz been h&ld. Retinug ifcmbere, bot are eli&i(l- i&(rc Mec(h&n. f Serv&n on the Commntee of Al.mag&unnt. The foRowingnre nominated for theEIucstionel Committee. to f&il live vnc&nciee: ('SORGR BACON, :SURGE BI UK, Wif. HE(VSON, l[ENI!Y KRNDAII, , CHA. S. PICKER1NG, GEO. RICHA13DSON, sud A. E. SI7ELAND. ilembers must not voteformore than Five Candids!ee. Volcan&uet be given b)'mnkin n X oppuvito t& t'6( nam(v I!6 I!mdila&(v (leetel form&pport reck member must show bie Pave Card to obtain s Vutin ~ Paper from (he person who -ives the:n n&t. Tn( honre o! v (&n ~ er, (r en ( t&11!)P.(n, on Nov('moor '&c 1, 1971 Dr. EDIICATII)MAL DEPA.RTifENT. Gr.
IN('(&IIE. d. EXPENDIT 1'RE. e. d. I'6& 1& T & Balance forward 1(i 1 To Cleaning 1!) Ol „Cash from Libranan. . . . 116 „Librarian's Salary 710 0 „Quarterly Grant Eilg 0 „New Books 15 6 6 Sale of Papers 116 (i Books Repaired 15 15 6 „ Stocktaking 015 0 „ Newspapers, Magszinee, (kc...... 916 5 snd Post Cards „ Prictin 511 &i „ Delegates to C &nferencee I 5 6 „ Library Cards (1,000). a I& , Commiesion, Po-tage, ac 0 ()10 „Furnishing Depntment Accoant 0 I'1 (3 Thorns&Codd, , . Suepence Fund. 600 , Sme, !1 Sums .. 0 6 4& Balance forward 4 10 576 o ll-„' a75 5 1!1
Warsouaw Batwcu Co)nacrvsa. —itr. D. P. Ablewhite, Coleby, Chairman; Mr. Joseph Grey, Welbomn, Secretary; Mr. Thos. Ms&riott, Welboarn; Mr. J, Shavpe Welbourn; htr. W. Hotohin. Caythorpe; Mr. Csythorpe; Mr, JohaHsmmond. Welbourni bfr. J. H Jolly, Lesdenhsm; Mr. Henry BsrweB, Fulbeok; Mr R. Phillips, WeRingore; htr. B.Gsdd, Navenby; Ifr Joseph Fiatters, Boothby; Mr. F. Thornton, Boothby. Mavass&sousu Bmaca Couurrrsa —Mr. Edmund Lupton, Dunston, Chairman; Mr. Elijah Reynolds, ifetheringhsm, Secretary; Mr. William Msthers, Mr. Bavm Itoesington, Metheringhsm; ifr. John Spencer, Mr. Francis Linton, Dunstan; ffr. Charles Baumber, Scopwick; Mr. John Lsvinder, Metheringham; Mr. Arthur Lake, ifetheringhsm; Mr. H. W. Bsguley, Danston. Bsaoaav Bssscn Couurcraa. —Mr. G. Afills, Banlney, Chairman; 3!fr. Bobt. Chamberlin, Bardney. Secretsty: Mr. H. Paries, Bsrdusy; Mr. Rovland, Bsrdney; Mr. R Horeewood, Bsrdney; Mr. G. Maddfeon, Bsrdnsy; Afr. T. Simpson, Soathrey; snd Mr. Bartlett, Stsinaeld.
Snatvoan Basses Cou trees. —Ifr. J. D. Crowston, Slsafonl, Chairman; Mc. C. Sa(nner, Sleaford, Secretary; Mr. J. Radkin, slesford; Mr. C. Battersby, Sfeaford ~ Mr. !L Brsckenb &ry, Slesford; kfr. J. Beet, Slesford; Mr. J. Clayton, Willoughby; Atr. S. Smples, Ruekingtoa; ifr. T. Newton, Swashy.
NOTICES. I, Mcm-Membc>t' Dividend is paid a4 4he Ofgco, Central Stores, Silvev Street, during oflice houyg. tf .9@IIivi(ftg hotjctcj Sf Withdrawal from Shave or Loan Capi4al, j)fembezs ace mquested to give their Shave or Loan blumbor btamn aud . 0'u pjetiees 4o be deliksnd a4 4he CNBoa, or pu4 into the Letter Box in 4he Large Doot; ao4 laker ihau 8 p m. Tuaadaya Ijjgthduavmb Igabjt)o be hail oa applieahou at the Ofgne. povctm om . B- CottkckM4hbtmk hi fho Pcmny Bank ago goaaivad a4 the General Offices every day duiing Ojgce hours, aud at 4ho Br~oh dg Shakp dtf'I('cf Sgk&at)4, .cmd cdkgha Country Bganohcu, eVery Mo)zday. d. To buutmkcz f)ftBy"auctu'm&tl(fiid, pllh 4ho wf)tkjng of Ca-operation, Members should vaad the Co-opayative IfaW6, Whtuh may bo had Sfovm) actd 4hcf ~,elva&up. aattcgdjsy, pgtoa Onc Half-penny. The Pass Booka wiB be ready on Sagmday, Xovombev 7th, aacl gho Members wiB please oaB at tho OIBco for them 0114ba4 day, NEVZ SER1KS No. 8
"SHOXV THIS TO A NON-MEMBER. " NOTES. Grantham Society's Branch at Bottesford is now well Association of persons HE HE Lincoln Co-operative Society is an T established, and the trade receipts and membership are in T themselves with the necessaries combined together to supply A Branch Store has also been opened at 13fllin~borou without the inter- creasing. of life as nearly as may be from the producers, where about 10 members arc enrolled. Up to now, vans run the same prices as vention of middlemen. It sells goods at three times a week from Grantham with bread and flour, but the and genuine- respectable shopkeepers, full weight, good quality, hopes to make this branch the centre of a round for a profit, is made. afier Society ness of every article guaranteed. whatever horse and cart, and to establish at it a bakery, as the distance is divided at so much in the 8 on glcnibers' paving expenses, from Grantham is considerable. purchases. The average dividend last yearwas 1s. 8';d. in the r, and the amount of profit reahsed 818,204 11s.10d. The Society appeals " con- in a special manner to" Wprkjag Bfuu, for, though ali are The Spalding Society commenced trading about three montlis true thrift, the men who live the cerned in economy and to by ago at Winsover Road. It was represented by one delegate at svieat of their brow, a penny saved is a penny earned. Tlie the last District Conference at Peterborough, and was a&lmitted its Society's ready money commands the best markets; large to membership in the Co-operative Wholesale Society at thc mterest membership secures it customers. and the good they last Quarterly Meeting of that body. The Society's next step receive on their capital and custom secures their loyalty to should be to loin the Co-operative Union. principle. A Member spending 410 quarterly at the Stores, and leaving the dividends to accumulate, vvould at the end of three years, taking 1s. 8d. in the 4, the dividend paid last quarter, as a The Lynn Society, which began business 2I years ago was basis for calculation, have a sum of 410 12s. 9d. standmg to his or represented by delegates for the first time at the late Peterborough her credit in the Society. It is m that way the Society has Conference. Former Societies established at Lynn and Spaldmg grown to its present magmficent proportions. The dividends came to grief from causes traceable to their maintaining a policy earned by its agency, but not required to be withdrawn by the of isolation, a practice fatal to Co-operative progress, but happily Members, have built it up. But although 874,769 8s. 6d. have yearly becoming rarer. been left to develope the Society, no less a sum than 4140,947 64. has in the meantime been drawn out the Members for 9s. by has not its their recurring needs. Established in 1861 about thirty The Boston Society yet begun proposed extensions by premises purchased some time working-men who could scarcely club together more than 810, and alterations of ago in West informing table of the Society now owns:— Street. From a very statistics given on the s. d. Balance Sheet it is plain that the Society's steady well-marked Stock-in-Trade 24 789 0 progress will shortly justify the Committee and members in Buildings and Land (unencumbered) 42,698 17 11 takmg the course they contemplate. Although Lincoln, in the the the Fixed, Rolling, and Live Stock 8,779 6 9 character and regularity of employment of its working Shares in and Loans to other Co-opera- population, has for many years had great advantages, co-opera- tive Societies 8,270 0 10 tively speaking over Boston, the growth of the Boston Society Other Assets (various) 26,221 16 1 during its first decade was greater than that of Lincoln Society. doubtless Cash in Bank and in hand 6,776 10 10 The reasons for this are that the former Society when it began was possessed of the accumulated experience of older During the last nine years $27,480 16s. 6d. has been advaaced Societies, through its becomiag affiliated with our two great to Members to enable them to purohase dwelling-houses. Co-operative Organizations, the Union and the Wholesale, in- stead of having to fight its early battles unaided, as many older The objects of the Society are to provide a safe and profitable Societies were compelled to do, and as others chose Members to do, and investment for tother'-the capital of the by combining the sidfered in their growth, too, for so choosing. security of a bank with the profits of a trade; to promote their ' ' a m aad iatefiectual advancement by providing means of social a tae and literary culture; to enforce the principles of Many members of the Society wiB remember Mr. E. HaBam thoney as an unalterable basis of business, ia order to com- being one its most trusted officera. For many years he served ' ' m l the lBgt markett in purchasiag, aad to avoid bad, debts. ia the Society weB and worthily as an Auditor, and as a hard-working selling. membet' of the Educational Committee. Members, at some of the older~Bshed country brauches espaciaBy, cannot fail to have is written about thrift. A grea~ aad To turn a retained a wlvid 'racoBeutiua of his quaintly humorous rendering tedis thrift. This is done at sovereign™~a gu~ the Stores by of "How uwd Stuaaaaetah'a dowter got wed, " and other amusing the interest of 6 per~givaa on each 8 invested up to $80. To ' 'is Yorkshire aketchea, gfvaa at tha Entertainments then anauafiy layout money advantage thrift. This is done at held at some of the country branches the Educational Com- the dividend vihich enables worth by the Stores by 81 of goods to be mittee. Mr. Hafiam and his family emigrated to New Zealand a for 18s. 8d. To "lay for a rainy day" is pun:based by thrift, and few years ago. From a letter to the Society appended it will be easilydone leaving the dividends to a"cumulate, this is by and seen that he and others are engaged in establishing a Co-operative adding a few shillings when they can be spared. By these LINCPLN CP PPERAij Ivz qU'ARTERLY RECORD.
dr COLD HANWOB I'H. round of Annual Festivals in connection with the Country SCUNTHORPE. —quartet ended HACKTHORN The Scptumbct 1st, 1891. E(cvcnth hu(f-year cndcd Junc 30th, Branches began with that at Horncastle, on Sept. 19th, which was s. d. 189L fairly successful as a Public Gathering, although fewer came to Salus...... 2,523 16 4 c. d. the Tea than to that of 1890, owing to harvest being later this Shore Capita( 3,550 3 2 Sales ...... o79 10 0 Reserve Fund 134 0 11 Share Cspitu( ...... 2D& 19 season. At Bardney, however, on Oct. 14th, more Tea tickets 40 Dividend. . . . 0 210 I Ruuutvu Fund ...... 0 have been sold, had more provisions been provided. 280 1 10 could Auuu (u 4.5ni Dividend 0 paid for tea, and at the Public Meeting the Co-operative Hall uuuiu ...... 343 0 I4 literally packed. The same thing occurred at Sleaford, the was LOUTH. —Seventeenth qcuttcr un&iud NEWARK —Fifty foot(h qcutlut ended number to tea, 400, exceeded all anticipations, being nearly double July 2nd. (891. Sept. 17(li, 18&J(. that of the previous year. A large meetmg followed, which was s. d. u. d well reported in the local papers. At Metheringham, tea was Sales ...... 1,3'&u '& Si Su(us ...... 1,206 7 3 940 &i Share Capitol ...... 3,447 11 served in two rooms to over 250 persons, who were provided for Share Ccpiru( ...... 6 Ruucrvu Food ...... 37 0 0 Reucrvu I'uud...... 10'u 0 0 much more satisfactorily than on the occasion of the last Festival, Dividucd ...... 0 1 6 Div(dusd ...... 0 1 0 and a good public meeting followed. The same applies to Cay- Auuutu...... 1,235 6 3&, Assets...... 4,879 4 rri thorpe, where a capital gathering was hem which will prove of Tbu report u(ctuu this iu ibu most LOUTB.—Eigbtccutb quarter ended lasting benefit to the Society. succuuufui quutiut tho Society buu bcd. October 1st, 1S91 Compared with cortuupcudiog quurrcr u. d of 1690 iiic sales ubo&y an mcruuuc o( Solus .. 1,337 17 223th Sdocciioc ruccivcu 8 grant &f Shuru Cup(is( 99&' H 6 competition, open to children of Members, for violin and A lou. 01. 4 Boot uod Sliou D piri- Buuurvt 1'uod Js 0 I 1 piano playing, promoted by the Educational Committee, was held ment iu uccoooccd cu bein ouwiy (&rviduod 1 ri in the Co-operative Hall on October 19th, Mr. W. Mason, oiu iud. A&uuiu (J&97 (4 Organist of St. Martin' s, being the adjudicator. There were 18 entries for viobn playing, and 9 for piano. In deciding upon the merits of the competitors upon the piano, the adjudicator took CORRESPONDENCE. into consideration, execution, time, expression, and scale; upon violin, execution, time, and tune. The prizes were awarded Tu &&cure insertion, fur&&ruckus(4 be wr(r(&u uu uut siib uf the p &put only in 8 the (ey(bit Erud, uud cu(heurrcu(er(by r(&u cutie uurf ur(r(reuu &fit wrircc uur rrb- much satisfaction: —Violin, uj jui f to the following, and the awards gave n&u&iuu r&u(uru ucprrru(y(8&oui(educ. 8((curru&puudeuuu»»uufd bcu&(druuue r &u 1'he 1st, W. Rayner, aged 18; 2nd, Wilfrid Calladine, aged 11; Brd, E&(i(un Lrucu(u Cu-opuru&iuc Rccmd, 63, Pm&(cud Street, Ltucu(u, Keendal, aged 8. Piano, 1st, Edith Hall, aged 14; 2nd, Ethel Wu (uc(rc (e&(uru on Cu-upurur(uc topics, uud ou the &curl'r&ryt rfia Srd, Ethel Hall, aged 12. Mr. Mason, of .Society E. M. Wellhead, aged 10; froui any of our illuiuberu. Thrue cufumuu are &purr &u rr((., bur &uc cuu&rur hu( ( uur. in giving his decision, remarked that the style of playing upon ur(uei rurpuui(bfe for the up(u(urru of uur correupucduc(r. t¹ piano, considering the age of the performers, was very satis- factory; the violin was a more diflicult instrument to play, but taking the performers as a whole, they had acquitted themselves very creditably. Singing and Reciting Competitions are an. REFRESHMENT BJLR& to follom. Of the former, Mr. E. Dunkerton, of the nonnced NEiy BUILDINGS, FREE SCBOOL Cathedral Choir, has consented to act as judge, and for the latter LANE. three gentlemen are asked, two of whom have performed this duty TARIFF. previously for the Educational Committee. From the large d. ' d. lj. audience that assembled at this, the first competition of the Cup of Tuu 1 I Btusd & Butter Pork Pic 2 evident that great interest is felt in them the Pot of Tus I4 Roll & Batter . 2 season, it is very by 3 Bun Batter - is intended to give a miscellaneous concert & li P(cfu Tcs 4 members generally. It Cup of Cuo(fuu I Sconce - - I Tus with Pastry 6 after the competitions are over, in which all the successful com- Cup of Cocoa 1 Scone & Butter — 1$ Lemonade 2 petitors mill be asked to take part. Hcm Sandwich 2 Psutiy - - . 1 Ginger Beer- 1$ P(ats of Hcm 8 Sausage Boll - I Potted Muat- 11 &i 6 Plum Bnuul & Bsttut 8 Ciguts
GLEANINGS FROM BALANCE SHEETS OF NEIGHBOURIN Q SOCIETIES. News Room; Libyazy; Refreshment Room. PETERBOROUGH. —P(fiy-suvuuth BOSTON.—Forty-fourth qucrtur ended THE NEWS ROON is opened on hfonduys, Tuuudsys, smj Thursdays st 8 o'ojock 2nd, quarte, cudcd June 30th, 1891 Jcjy 1891. p.m. ; on Wednesdays ut 6.30 p.m. ; an Fridays st 11s.m. ; sud on Sstctdsys s. d. u. st 2 p.m. It fu ofossd every Evening st 9.30. Safes ...... 17,565 7 10 Su(us ...... 3,259 0 0 20,969 10 11 Shuts Ccp(tsf...... 4,450 12 2 Sharc Capital ...... I'HE LIRR4RY is open for chsegiug books: hfondsy, Tuesday, Thursday Reserve Fund . . . 810 6 01 Reserve Pun 4...... 63 0 0 .. . . . to 9 m. 1-80 to '2-80 m. for Dividend ...... 0 9 0 Dividend ...... 0 1 9 Ptfdcy, 7 p. ; Fridsy, p. , Country hfcmbcts ou(y; Auuctu ...... 25,788 9 8$ Ausuts...... 8,281 I 8 Ssturdcy, 6 to 9 p.m. This Soc(cty cont(nuus fc msku sound A tsbju uhuwfug the progress of the progress; the quarterly sales are the Socjcty appears on the balance sbuut. THE REFRESffdfENT ROO51 is open dsricg the ssmu hours su the News Room highest yct reached. They do uot The salus for tbu first year the Society uxcupt on Wudncudsys, whuu it is c(osaj s(togo(but. deliver goods oot scj( on credit. Pro- wsu fn ex(8(88&!8 w8tu E4,946, fot th8 paganda meetings have been beld st susecfsj yust just uudaj 218,284. The Hufpuion sud the Ortons, sud others pruucut number of members is 906, src to be held in these snd other daring the Brut ycst thu membership Gtset for wss 822. vissgus. The Educstiocsj LIST OF NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS TAKFN the qusrtur wsu 225 16s. Od. KING'8 LYNN. —Tenth quurtur eedaj I!fay 27hh, 1891. IN GAINSBOBOUGH. —Bcvcnfy-uuventb THE READINQ BOOM. 1891, E s. d. quarter ended September 1st, Salus s. d...... 1,425 11 9 DAILY PAPEBS.—Standard, Dusy News, Dssy Chmnhdc, Daily Sharc Capita(...... 547 13 5 TcjcgtsPh, Safes ...... 6,650 5 7 puo Ms(1 Gazette, Msuchcutut Gustdfsn, Msuchcstur Essm(nur, Leeds Metcuty, ...... Reserve Fued...... 67 12 11 Sbc(68(d Independent, The Bhste Cspi(sl ...... 11,634 12 6 Star, Not(ingham Post, Manchcstut Evsufug News, , Dfvfdcnd. . . . . 227 6 ...... 0 1 8 uud The Daily Gmphic. Ruumre Feud ...... 24 Ausu(s 0 9 ( ...... , 1,229 14 8 Ihvfdemt ...... I Tbfs Sue(sty 10d. WEFKLY PAPERS. —Lincoln 13,218 4 I psyu in thu Gssuttc, Lincojnsbirc Chmuicfc, Boston smuts. - ...... dividend on cosL It hcs $215 Gustdhuu, Not(fugbumuhim Guard(su, Homcsut(u tskun from the Loan News, Sps(ding Fmu ptuss, Sfx younds am Csp(tcj. Thu report ututcs, Coru- Nuwstk Adverusut, Iu(8 of Axho(mu sud scab(8 the above dfvf- the Gufuuborough News, Sjecfotd Gsscttc, Ruumm Peed to miltcc are cstccstfyconuiduncg about Gmethsm Joutns(, Etcbsugu snd Mst(, dund. The us(us of the Soc(cty The Spectator, Stum(on( Mercury to bcpstd, commccciog s Bakery. Coom(ps Saturday Journal, Nuwcsutjc an inmwsse of ucsr(y E100 pur Chmc(c(s, Leeds bfcrcnty, public Op(&non, show smj Cow&pcmtivc News. wcck over the coutuspoudfug quartet of i GBANTHAM. —Seventy-third qusrtcr Bft Bfoltmsu Bacon hss ended lust yest, Js(y 7th, 1891. ILLUSTBATED PAPEBS.—The Graph(o, E88(umt, Duo@ P' gcucmuujy proton(ed to thc Boo(sty 8 s. d. News The queen, punoh, Judy, Fun, snd the IBuuttataj London Nu&m. vs(uub(8 sits ou wjdcb tc bue(j 8 New Bs(us...... 6,033 18 7 Brunch Sane, in Asbomft BaaL Bhstc Cup(to( .. 8,763 5 8 MAGAZINES. —Iafsste Hour, Csssejj'8 Family Magus(88, Chambemts p(ot of gmsud hus been ywebsad on Rcsmvc Pand .. F76 11 6 Goat Words, New Review, Bsrpct's Mugssiuc, Jo~ whjeh su(table premises sm to bs bejjt Dividend 0 1 8 English IBsstmiaj Msgsshmt Harper's 'Young P~ ...... Pmpjct Nu&etseuth Oe m fot 8 Potk Butchery. .. 10,194 I 8 AB The Year BoumL 10 LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QnsnIEnnv nnoonn.
members of this association that does not on many orgsnisstions; for no msn by THE DUTY OF THE STORES TO THE WHOLESALE hie conduct he, s a right to injure another's investments. SOCIETY. What we want to-dav is to lift our movement out of the cold dreary region of self-interest into tbe warm, bright sunlight of ruutnal help and brotherlv love understand, appreciate, snd share in the benefits of Paper by,lfr. 1. gco'&&n, oi Der!iy. r o&! o« b- fih&o& f Confer, ic&, And in proportion as we ,Jnsf gl&&b. la!&1. orgsnised co operation, is the mossure of our responsibility actively to support and make them s means of sdvsutsne to others, and thus ss members of one corporate ooxorx so. body co-operate for tbe good of all. Let esei& of us act as though the success of ibe us alone, ever 1'&ep&ng before us the highs t aims HEN' the pioneers of C&.ooerat on a&sr!ed on their glorious career, they ion-h& movement depends upon of no& that it shall miniate: to our own interest snd enjoyment alone to obtain something beii lee nro!i&, ; they aime&i st nrocurin nusdu!ters&ed co.operation — w but that it shall bring about s better s!a e of life for &he masses of the people. articles. The soultera!ion of zoo!= i in ra!lv b &m, no& at the shop woere tb y does not 1&e in it. nu&nbers. nor in the amount of itv sre .old, but at the mmni*ct ry, an! then fol!ow the m xiugs, the tricker&- real strength of s society in amount of tn& co-on& mtive spint among the men&bere. Let us, fa&se representation- oi &ir who'. e-&i!e dials'. '!e. bz ng a!! &bi ~, t&i . Co-&pe&e. 'iv trade, bn! the . the present truer and nobli r &lian the past; "developin the highest Societies combin d in lgi:1 to e tsbliso &n Co operaiive Wbo;assis Societ. , iu=t then, make e!'fort heart and brain for a comn ou end, embuing lite it eli with s deeper in the same waves roon &f in 1 vilnsl hai prov! uely c& nbinel && cits&bsh t, eir of resolves, anti wa!,-in slumberinn beroi m into respect&ve stores. Snt irben we took this second step m co-operati. n it was oue of meaning, stirring within ns holy ' no msn liveth bimseff onr oh!ecto also to sbobsh expen ive. unnecei ary m&ddlemen. I sey exp"us, vo. active life, by reco nisiug the gran&1 pri iciple that to alone. because""every nperiiuou= hen 1 en oned m nnneces srl ivorl& i a tax upon I!ie public, aud of tb extent to olin h they aro taxed they have n conc& i&i,m. OUR DUTY. Look at the thousands upon thousands of pounds spent everv pear &u advs !i-&n;— in telling the people wiis& tiie, want I.ook st &li gree, t army o' ghb t » -ned, T is a more important matter than many suppose, joining a co-operntive society. fash:onsbly-dressed travefi rs constantly gmug about —skiing largely to ili cosh I Not. only are there dutiee we owe to t, but there sre duties we owe to onr. felloiv. bnt nnt oue iota to tb& value of th goods they sell. Al. these expenses lieve m members individually. Join&ng a store ie a somewhat easy mcthoil of obtaining the end to come out of the ' ponr consumer. ' aud they sre nearly oil nnnecess iry monev witbont much risk. iffo wonder, then, there are eo many who identify to us as eo operators. Tlie Wbo!assi foci&tv has enabled ns to dispeuse w&th themselves with it from a purr ly sebish motive —from a desire for gain —notbni ~ these expensive luxnrie=. more. The higher aims snd purposes of our movement never enter their m&ud . It ha also very greatly aided the Co-operative Ilnion, for when the 1 nion, by lf we are to have ths benefits we must bn prepsren to take the risks also. But tbe its propagandist efforte lies been the means of stariiu s hooie&y, the socio«, anti-co-operative co-opers!Or will never risk anything; be will shout sud grumble wl&fie young snd inexperienced snd weak, has been supplied with goods by Pne and find fault; he will sometimes make reckless proposals, but always st the Wholesale from time to ti&ne just according to its reqn&rements —and tbi. bas expense of somebody else. preven!cd it becomin the nrey of those who sre always ready to palm any quao&ity Now life cannot be enjoyed without cares. however little we msy be inclined to of goods npon tie unwary. As the retail societies sre the only source from which them, and not the least of the pleasures tbs& fiow from it are those derived from the Wholesale derives its trade. it is not to its interests to glut them with &oo isr e the knowled e &bat we are endeavourm, to the best of our ability, to carry out the s qusn&ity of g& ods, thns cans&ng them to have on hand an unsaleable stock; I!iv mauy anl vsrieii responsibiiitie" tbst de, olve upon each one of us.—d. Scot!os. interests are identical, snit therefore oecnsionally there sre times ivhen the Whole- sale will actuallv advise societies not to bny. iNow. we have in onr movenieut ebs* e capital, constantly increasing in amount, EXTRACTS FRO&AI A REPORT OF A. SPECIAL COM&LIITTEE and to my mind through tbe »''bolesale is the most certain method of speedily snd effectual!v estsblishiog prodnctive eo-operat&on. ttfe have or ou nt to have sn APPOIiVTED BY THE LEEDS CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY assnred zusrket for its productions. When we started d& tr&bution, it was ith &iie TO ENQUIRE I&VTO THE QUE&STIOIV OF CO-OPERATIVE obleet of brinxin" Cbe prodneer aud con. amer clo er together; therefore, I eoi:tend, that through the Wholesale th prodncer nnd ei nemner «re one. I have n»t sword FAR ILII&VG. to say against the a&nab productive societies that have been siarte! throng&&out the &1&IIE committee appointed by the Conf reuce of Losel Committees in April last to conntry & they are &err&in!I an improvement on the old sve!em of pnvate aml mqu&re into the importsut subject of C -ope ative Fnrmiug, have much plea- individual propriet-zship, and as such I wi'h them success; no but msn con sure in presenting to this Conference toeir rcoort, embodying the result» of their claim for them that they sre s. truly co rative as the Wholesale op Society. inqniries. They were not col*.ed intn xistence by the no&de of the retail soc&ct&ev, nor were rinse they were appointed they have held eight me& tn&gv, an 1 have endeavoured they founded by them, but tbev have been estab. i&bed bv small bodies of workers, to obtain the most reliable and impart&ai evidence from a variety of sources. The whose oh!&et was to bett~r the r onn cond»ion —a very worthy object taken in tbe report, therefore, will be necessarily to a large extent a statement of facts, rather abstract —bnt combination only, is not &o operation as we have a&ways un'. retood *' tuan opirions, and although somewhat nry, the committee hope they will be found it. Co-operation means "T&.e greatest good to the greatest number; &s it &mportsn&, snd not un&nteresting. The inquiry has necessitated s considerable opposed to every &and of class interest: its object is not to emich how- sny class, amount of correspondence. No less than eighteen Societies oz associations snd ever great or small it may b, bu& to raise the whole body of the people. several individaale haviog been written to, some of !hem several times, and. in every We bear s great deal about, the elevation of the worl,-er, and wish for his s instance courteous repiies have been received much valuable information welfare. echo &hat wish, snd will yield to no man in desire snd I my to cany it out, given. but I do not want to elevate one class of workers st the expense of another. Some The committee therefore beg most respsctfally express their obligations of the leadezs in our movement talk about the workers as were to snd though they a small tender their sincere thanks to the various committees, secretaries, snd mansgeIS hxiy of co-operators, whereas tbe whole movement is composed of workers, snd I who have so generously snd at considerable numerous want to consider the well-heing of them all. To what labour responded to their ifiustrste I mean, 1st us mquiries. taLe the boot productive societies, and the question will arise, —sye, even in their As it would be impossible, within reasonable limits, to submit the whole of the own interest —how fsr sre these societies to be multiplied —competing against each correspondence, s careful summary has been made of the principal facts and other ae they do for trade in s limited market, snch as the die&ributive stores ststemen!e received from every source. sffordsv Except s few who make boots for the army, they do not into the out- go In adaition to corresponding with Societies the committee have thonght it side world for Weir trade. I freely confess, that while societies do each a large snoe necessary to visit by deputation snd personally to inspect some of the farms to trade with private manufacturers there is some room mthin the movement for which reference is make in the About from which informa- theseprmluetiveeoeieties. I earnestly wish they could this trade report. half the farms gst that isnow tion hae been received sre In given to private msnufsetarere, bnt my point now is to contrast ths constitation dairy farms, the others being of s mixed chsmcter. of some, attention is given to the feeding of catfie snd for tbe butcheriog Chess pnxlnetive societies with that of the Wholesale. When they have made a sheep departments of the Societies with which sre connected, Che breeding snd pmfit, ont of that pmfit is given what ie called a bonne to labor (the "worker they "); feeding of pigs and keeping poultry are imporisnt elements in others; while some then a por!ion to trade, whish is the "consumer "; then they keep the re t for sre of the character ot market gardens, and raise large quantities of vegetables. themselves se shareholders —snk the workers only are to be the shareholders. In nearly every case where distributive Societiee have a fans the whole of the Now, where does this pxofit come from f Where, but from the consumer. &Yho is produce is disposed of amongst the members of each Societies and not in the open Cbe consumer 1 Tbe individual member oi the store, and in maoy cases he is a market. Another point to which the committee would direot atteation is that poor agrionltmal labourer with his Igs. per week. So that the limited number of their iafo. motion hss been drawn from courses extending over a very wide ares snd worlrera in that trade me to better their condition at Che expense of the greater number who have not these advantages. from localities differing from each other, in their character, CMs will be evident from ths fact that Societies have been corresponded with eleven or twelve liow, I claim for the Wholesale thsC it is more tmly co-operative in than that? different countiss in England snd Scotland. ueh ss after it has msnnfsetmed its hoots —sml the members their by pur. The committee were unanimously agreed Chat the should be ss complete chasm hnm made the pmfit —that pmfiC (the whole of it) shall back inquiry go to those snd extensive as Che time st their oommsnd would allow, snd that the causes of who have msile it, and thus tbe grandest prinriple of equity is esniwl out to tbe fsilme or success in co-opersfiye fanning should, be olesrly ssosriained. fnfieet extent. liat, say some, how about ths men who have made those if possible, boots f With these prslimiaary remarks we give ae follows the substance and character of Wefi, as o-operators, ws ought Co psy the highest rate of wages in ths trade snd it 1 Che information contained in Chs cozze&qmndsnce z&ow in possession ot the ptoney m adkftkm is to be the elevator, then the same channel is open to them thh sll eommiffse, ss, mbem; They, se members of the etoze, get bask sll the pmfits make. Ap&I-X. sayfnrthet, ss fsr ae I snd my cofiesgues on the Wholesale Beard aare eon- We notice somewhat briefiy the fanning Associations, seeing li is noi in these ed, we shsB always e eo- eem, pay the highs&i tale of wages in Che various trades in which that ws sre so much interested se in farming operations oarriek on in eonneetion we sre earn&ged, snk make Ihe conditions under which tbe workers are employed as with Distributive Co-operative Socieiies. healthy, as pleasant, and ss condncive to their physical, moral, snk social weli- Tnn Aesixoxo i Fan&In&a iiseooICT&ox belng as pose&ble. And I ssy again, when the Wholesale is mairingg bo 0ts 01' con- other sr!isles, it is practically the member making them for himself, Has not been very successful so fsr. The assess enumerated sre —the poor h e, snsnd th nstthe market W oleeaie does bring the producer snd consmnez cloaez together —iu fact dition of the land, too little capital, and having Co depend on the outside it tliey ere one: and therefore clann through for the sale of their prodbce. hv I foz it that it comes neszest to the I idesi of eoa&peration highest —which means "mutsal help" based on tbe truestes Noaxn Snazox Fans&ma Assocnnox, Nonnmemsnnsxn, of equi&y —and principles I am jnstified in asking. foz it ineresseil sappoxt snd s greater an tiie psri of the eoc&sties loyalty Iles been an unqualifie success almost horn its comm ncement, some twelve years represented here to-day,' who,' m reality, sre 'the ro- prietors of the inriitnt;on fm which I plead. "*' ' pm ago. Its business is dairy fanning, and the milk is sold both to members snd the &ehenamsn pnbhc. They had maay kfifio&fit&en to contend with st the commencement, but i~a mm or actors lometl Whamede itioihe1 nnden of both cn be loyal falthf&ri dl&ty they warn soon overcome by persevezsnce, ank for about tcn ycszs they have paid snd to then&. They cannot& kisregazd this without injuzy to themcsivos and others, because there lfiper, cent. interest on capital, aml frsqnsb&tiy a dividend of qfi per cent. on tnule is s rsspcnm~ty rests an the in addition. LIII)COLN CO-OPKRATIVK QUARTERLY RECORD.
the members Hie&&OCRYE ai&N( ii market Lo seek. «s cvcrvthin thoy produce is soll in tiic Society and tbe produce they gor, aud have the ln " I a!fr, cist I!ic I iwi!v&ind qcelity of ui&ther A. & i &i I vi &'bi a- n&' &ccrc! d. Iu tiiis eis ii ie tate iba t! I, . . i kuoivi „" li«t tliev theiu elve:ne Roc «vrbe prouncers. «.&t. fsrsioa of Isud was of suol a c&&«miter t' at ii sime iru' reqi irecl fits hor. ». &.& pl I h it. i - a* It ivoiild not r iw i&&i&i, or p 1st, "., a&id 1.& ivct . C &son. tli"I ci &« iv &I », 1, TO&i (,'&v. E&r Co o. Eaiz&vs Corns&'I, 11ua&mr, iv. &s & n &nil s &roin e ussr t;uiul& ': il fu failuro. T!« .firn t! . t, auu thcv ' r»ali- d. tlie ad ' &i &r wii "'& t'- i & I, -.". fmt» re-i&t- ar» greet diflicui iu 1& i«s u" of su li cro a t) ey could iai. e a&, rcn in &«t i. I: ., :: !, vier. fn I && '. -'x &l&' &v«re s iii ut timt t'irv per»eased * I'&&can v ', , I, i& I t: hr-t .u«. ' h cow. mi ruakc d &"i I !i:m. T!i-y ~, a &lail & ri oi t!&o prob&a of ei Tu« Scozxrsrr Fin I&Ye A&so rivroi ' ii e. r !, yicli f ..'&„ t:i 1'. b.-t rh ':. bi. &n. is!i pt that &&C I seiit to tiie Ieu h!«r hone& ". & neil an II 1 oot b»en very lonu iu es et n « I«i i es . o fai -.: . i-:I . ..: ii . i I ui 1 I &p, »ii p!v f „'.. . &it is IL:I ! ~ . hoivs an aver i I been takeu. with every pro. pest of e, suocee-'&«I issue m Itc&i=i& dair; fun«;u rl &i th" ii Id. f m: I for!&velve ru& riths ending June, IHJI, . no i ' p& I'e Lie&is ei.'i ie pe& c w, cine i-. h «Ivor, a I ry h& h u era e, end. &t wouk! ~ goo&1 It irifl be observed !liat the aix&ve arc 1&&min ~ 4-- c .t.u, i. Fur& a«i imp! i ui I 5 sai r .&c!.«Ia e Reuera!!v ou 7. O to SOO gaflonsbein'obtained from tile following being Co-operative Sec!et&es citiier rontiu ~ or ivniu fdnu. c,itt'! «s e rnl, T!I n. i*..'. is sent fr&m ih. firm &o tiie niid& dep*rtment of the '. th ir home' at I . !iom&ii, st & I. per R&B -, «ud &. dehvered to the meo&bars at THE WOOLWICH ARLEY&L Co-OPL'Rd&1&E SOCIEIY for the N & riiat in addition to tlic pio!it at the farm rliey msi'c also a rated prout flo tl&e «oivu freebolil &party. i rchs, "I Has sn estate of acres of laud, whieii i. pr I ht &rc. . Tii y sp, .&k «i&&i tbo ioosr, gratifying eon!i&lance of their success in dairy .iver acre. If»eh, lu lu. cou- in 1885 at a cost of gfl, eOO, beiug a httle 1:1!9per f, u!, f& rming. Their two fa&m compnse 100 acres, «B grass, snd their live stock . mn» bein„' littlo bet&i r tl&an when purchased, was in s very bad cm& liii &n, portion -ists of cows, horses, p&ge, sad poultry. a swamp. A large outlay of capital wae th reforo nece sary iu order to iruprove &t. condition, and for the erectiou of suitable and convenient buildings. Tl&is tliey Nzwzox&LE, con-equence of this outlay, no pro!it i&i« have done in no uigpardly spirit. Iu Another Society in the same county. I&as bad s farm for several years. widch f&'oi&1 ivs. improve&I, and euorm iusly m made for several year . but the estate greatly the!irst has been s success. They lceep milch cows, feed catthh breed pigs, and creased in value, and they are noiv re«pin the advantages. Last ar a profit of y h. &ve «coueilersble nuiuber of poultry. They also grow some grain. The whole XLOO was and tiu year. it is hk ly to be very lar ely increaseii. a. they .&re iealised, of the produce, except occ&s»ou«By s fcw you« ~ pi s, is consume&i in the Soci~ ty, of every «selul variety of vegetables o( the producing almost fabulous crops uearly aud they aflinn tb«C tliey make "0 per cent. inLerest on the capital invests&i in the s, of ivcic:h ti&ey have abou&, :!00,and si-o lceep a finest quality. They breed pi fe, rm, which is about 50 serac iu exteut. large stock of poultry, both of ivhich thev fin profltable. They have also s suc- cessful milk business. AB the produce they raise is sold in tbe Society, snd they THE LdNC&SYER Co-OPLR&zivz SOCIRYY consider the res«it very satisfactory. Ha hsd a far»i of Ill ucres a little . *r twelve months. They !&ave, therefore, had THE IPSNICH SOCIETY but a shirt, expeiiince. Th, v pay in reiit and rites about 02 Je. «n acre, and have it ha I Has a farm o( 50 acres, which lor several years they rented as yearly tenants, bu!, takon the!Srm on s i«is ot fosr!cen vs«re. For several years pr» iouely owners, having this year purchased it for EGO an acre, including been very groatly ne I r»d, t)i laud b iup n bad condition, and «6 the buildiou-, they sre now the Blflo a farm-house anil other buildings. While tenants they so«hi no&, witliout fences. Zc., in« v ry ililipidated ita e. Tl& v i&ivo cspeul I durinp the year pood conse- risk, expend money in improving the land; this they will now do, as they have in putting ther« into repair, aud luive oiuugeii it to wurkiug expenses. In ~ . aruc unc. They hei al become tbe owners. They have not kept s, separate Recount of their fsrmin quence of this there is a i&alan« «&!h wr ox »le t iliit the farm hss been connected with the bnteherin busiaess of the to purrlmse &b whole &f their l&vo stock, t'iiei& I ring n n&i .m th« I&rm. It i s, operations, as s Society, for which they have fed cattle and sheep, sud have also bred p&gs, geese, dairy farm, snd their ob;ecr, is to supply Lhe rueiub rs «itl& ruillv J&c. They expre witli first su&1 sre con!ident ilmt ducks, snd fowls. They express the opinion that the farm hae been &n several tliemselve ns boing sat&stied the year's result, ways beneflt, and will bo more so in the future, being now their own property. they will be successful s srm tbe m&st They now intend keeping milk cows. The two remainiog snd last oases ou whish we report probably, important and interesting mto which tho committee have enquired, in consequence Tzz RIPLEY So IEPY, DER«Y, of the very mar!'ed contr«st iu their result-, one bein- decidedly unsuccessful, sud Hse also a farm of 6fty acres, for which they pay 82 per sere, with rates snd tl&e other an equafly decided success. Both sre dairv fsrrus, sari both have been taxes in addition. It is principaily a dairy farm, and the milk is sold to members visited by deputitioe from the comunttee, wiio were mo t kindlv received, an I of tbe Society and other . They lieve not sboivu a large probt in their farru fovoured in both ins&ancee with u cousiilerable «mount of detailed sud vaiuab!e balance-sheet —sometimes a small loss —but they charge six per cent. interest on m formation. fazm bene6t capital, and depreciate liberaBy. They have found the «rest to Tuz 1!zvc«sera«&No Sdr. poRr& Eou&z&RL« their butchering aud horse-keepiug departments, aml, taken altogether, they Is well-known ae a lar prosperous, and wealthy Society. They have had for m&usider it has paid them. They are sstisfled with what they have realize&!, an! e, a& ar, :Ids. an ucre, situated so«is ten or eleven miles intend to renew the lease when it expire . They have s small numbet of live- s &ver«i years a far«i of SSO res, ilireet rsihvay communication. We regret, stock on ihe farm, no pigs. and few pouluy. They have had some exceptional &iistsnt from Munch ster, b«L there is &h serious loss in their fermi« operations, losses, snd same of the !and is not of the best character. A deputatioa visited tlus however, to say that Society su!fere a believe several hundred pounds annually. The other farm farm, snd the impression wss thai it might be managed to greater advantage. amounting we to (or t«ther two farms in close proximity, under one manager) which we place in CL«dxoz Moos Co-opzsdzrvz Socrzxz, Cuz«mmazn, contrast, is not, we must state, ia son«sation with s Co-operative Society, but with Has h«d a farm for saver«i years, anil the balance sheets gener«By show s very a iarge public institutian (The Roy«i Albert Asylum). But both fszms sze under good proflt, but the circumstances are favourable, (ss the horses ot the Society are the management of hized m«nagers, paid by salaty. The Institution talring Che kept on the farm, snd RB the cartiag is «cedited to it. They have about 54 scree, produce in one case snd the Society in the other, under very similar conditions. End psy Ei 12s. «n acre rent, but ten acres are 1st in allotments to the membezs The land occupied by the Institution does not exceed 150 acres, for the lszgesi of the Society. They have « flout mill, the offal from whish is used in feeding proportion of which 68 per«ere rent is paid snd for the remainder 62 10«. But cattle «nd pigs for the Society. They have s few .poultry, but no speci«1 attention the sm«Ber farm makes every year s good proflt, whish last yssr amounted to no seems Co be paid to ibis department. The farm, with its «ccessories, is no doubt s less than $585, after paying 6ve per cent. interest on capital «nd «B working su«cess expenses. The foi!owing facts are inasresiing «s indicating to a l«zge extent, we think, ASP&x«ld, Cuz«ERR&En, the oauses of failure in one case and of suocess in the other. Is s smaB Society in an sgricuitursl district. They have hsd « f«rm of 68 scree, On 0 e sm«Ber farm there is every appearance of the mast ekilfai management and have not been saccessful. They hsd Snvested in the farm about 6800, snd and succesrinl cuiiivstion. The farm hei!dinge snd aB their sarroundings present turned their «tteution nuunly to cattle-feeding. They consider that they hsd been an appearance of order, cleanliness, sad the most complete sanitary snsngements. over-tented. Dairy farming, where the milk can be sold, they believe would psy, We azs sorry not to be ab!e to apply these remarks to the larger farm. There wss and that cattle snd pig.breeding wouid bc pzofliabie. s!eo s very striking diffen&nce in the smoant ot live stock on each farm. On the Bxnntzomz, Nozxzuzzmma&m, 880 acres there were 197 animals, inc!«ding cows, heifers, caives, sheep, pigs, snd horses. Ou the 150 acres there were 408 head of the same classes of anim«ls, Rnd bsd « farm of 74 acres for four Is s Society of 900 to 1,000 ttembezs, whish has (the milch cows especiaiiy) in much better condition. On the larger farm ihete years, snd hss made a proflithree ys«m oaC of the tom. They state thai the farm «co«ridexabi«outlay warn 88 mBch cows, on the smaller 80, snd the average product ot xnilk from the wss in s very poor condition when they toot ii, snd mquitel latter was about 800 g«Bone per cow yearly. In the former csee Chere was less than srabl'e. grow potatoes, out of capital to impzove it: 57 acres of the land is They 100poultry, in Che !atter 300. There is also great contrast in the value of breed So well sstisfled srs s s a of which they do well, and also feed cattle and pigs. year's produce from each. The value from the larger farm from September, th«C they have authorised 1890, the members with the zesnit of their fanning experiment, to September, 1891,wss $8,788 15s. 94. and from the smaller one fram were to 1st in the neighbourhood. , Jane, the Committee to take other two farms which 1889, to Jane, 1890, the value was 64,487 10«. 10d. The Equitable Society has, aud CheywouM have done They advise purchasing instead of zen!ing 1«nd, s«y howeva', established « large snd weB-cond««ted milk business in btanehsster, tmm b«CC«z it Che farm hsd been Chait own property. which they derive s very considerable pzofli. They purcha«e largely from other Wzsz Sx&ELEY, DOEH&H, producers in addition io the supply from their own fanu. It appears„so fax Rs we know, that whsr met a milk business is est«bif shed in con«sation with R Co-oper«tive A C&anparaidve Society, with upwards of 1.000 members, occupies 180 sctes of land. of Society it H successful and becomes a source of considerable profli, this being They gmw wheat, barley, oats, tares, hay, clover, turnips, and potatoes, RB own Society. They also feed cattle, sheep, snd pigs, gener«By added to the aggregate profit of the Society, as chests sze noi usuaBy svhich th«y dispose of in Chait given with the milt. purpose tskiog a dairy farm in addition to the one they Rndkskp ponltxy. They The foregeing atatemeuts are necessarily a general chazflater, bni have. sndpoultry to be pzo6table live stock, au&1 doweB ef they sze Thayflndsheep, pigs, fair deductions from sicertsined fac's, snd clearly show in season. They have taken the farm on s !esse of twenty- that, given a gc««1 fan« tritb pdflatsss s good under good management, Co-operative farming say «Wa consider the !aud a good. investment, and sre coniident (aspecisBy d«ixy farming) wBI pay " ss well as sny other business, snd will certainly bring graaC cofl«tarsi adv«ntsg«s It wfll be a gr«i'iC be«RSC Co the Society. to s Society. OL«uozsxzz Co-01'EH&TIVE Soolzxx Out of the four fatmizg Associations wiuch have been namsil, one —«d«ity tan« Is«pxOSP«m«s Sfeiety which, h«sh«d «farm of about 100 acres foz three yeaxs, IN«rth Seato«}—hss been for tan years an unq««66«d Ence«&RL Another (Ctm for Wbfah Ch«y pay'ni m«C, &«nd Eaiez Shout 68 pez acre, End have rue&le s profit Scottish Zazmiug Association} zeo«utiy formed on « larger ss«ia gives pmmismg ««oh year sftetp«ying wo'ri&bqf gxpezses «nd Inc«est on capita!; they also psy their indicdtions of pm«parity. 'Ihs other two, fmm ca«ms «learly indicated, «re661«z«s. 1«ho«rara baiisx S&age«CC!4&&«ny othsz fsrmez in the district; they have thirty Ont of tbe other foutteen fan«a, ihirisan of whi'ah «ze aonnected with di«lmbuinr« «fld daittsk CAS mBk C(riz««'d«y Co Ch«fz m'«tubers. They keeP pig«End Soaiaties, oza (A«pains), we undsnz«nd, has bs«n given and suoibaw @%am&- milch cowz v up, pnuttzy, «ml flnd @earn Co psy &s«I .Tt«ay bga«& Ch« t«nz an «1«mis of seven yeats, nb««iet Rnd S«lfotd) En«i«ins oonsfd«mb!« losses I b«C RB Che zest b«ve t«esx more z«6 wozid HCC lite Co give it up, bui I«sum buy'IC it ct«yy muM. They h«vs no or isss succe«st«i, snd some of them renmzk«biy so. LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
PURH ISHIXG DEPAP T&IENT. DRAPERY AND MILLINERY
the bove uow the largest Stock of Belroom, -- In above Department we D~~ "A. ~ . M'E~lTS. Sitting-room, snd General House Furmshing Good, we have ever hsd the pleasure of otfi-ring to our members. BEDROOM SUITE, Grained American Ash, 39 15 0. We take, with pleasure, the present opportuuiiy of acknowledging DR%WING-ROOibl SUITE, in Leather, 611. the increased support of late accorded to these Departments by our SIDEBOARDS, from 69. members snd their friends; to 'hem sud to other intending pur- MAHOGANY COUCHES, in Hair-seating, from 62 19s. ohssers we to intimate that we have now on hand snd on view, M'AHOGANY GENTS' CHAIRS. in Hair-seating, Zl 13s. beg the whole of our LADIES', do. , All lls. Single CHAIRS, do. , from 9s ! FRENCH BEDSTEADS, 6ft. 6in. by tft. 6in. , from 15s. 6d. 6ft. 6in. by 4ft. Oin. , „15s.Od. NEW AUTL/NN' STOCK 6ft. 6in. by sft. 6in. , „14s.6d. which includes s large snd ehoiee selection of Goods required at this COTS, from 13s. FOLDING CHAIRS, 15s. season of the year. The Stock embraces sll the Season's Novelties. BEDS sud MATTRESSES at low prices. We earnestly solicit s call, and trust that our members will not A large snd varied selectiou of X Ak MPSi in sll the newest designs, for the present season. be induced to leave their own shop through the extensive adver- The best assorted stock of Glass and China in the city. tising of private traders (it is indirectly the consumer who bss to psy VASES snd ORNANIENTS of every description. for this expensive item), but that they will first see the value given st SPECTACLES to suit sll sights. their own establishment. Below sre s few lines detsiled:— Carpets, Oilcloth s, Linoleum s, Hardware, Cutlery, Dress Departmeut:— Bassinettes, V(fringers, dec. , fbc. Best value in Black Csshmeres, 6hd to gs. 11d. per yard. snd in ENAMELLED and PORCELAIN WREATHS CROSSES Black French Meriuoes, ls. 6d. to 9s. 6d. per yard. great variety. Black French Foulhs, Habit Cloths snd Serges, ls. 3d. to gs. 6d. WATCHES, PIANOFORTES, ORGANS, snd HARMONIUMS per yard. supplied on lowest possible terms. A very large snd varied stock of Coloured Dress Meltons snd other Fancy Dress Goods, from 3&d. to gs. 11d. per yard. : 3&unrrnls Ifnrni'Itrt) tl)rougl)aut. . Coloured Csshmeres, French Meriuoes, always stocked. A very ohoice assortment of Dress Robes. Trimmings, Buttons, Ac., to match. N.B.—Any~inst stocked msy be procured on approval Striped Skirtings, from 9hd. to gs. 9d. per yard. with despatch. Umbrella, Hosiery aud Glove Department:— BCot, We sre holding s large Stock of Umbrellas in the newest styles aa5 Skag D'eparhmggt, of handles and in a variety of covers. Our well-known FREE SCHOOL LANE. "Bective" Cover is the most reliable. Hosiery snd Gloves sre too numerous to detail, —we can only solicit inspection+ NOTICE THE SPLENDID STOCK OF Our Stock is admirably suitable for the season before us. CO-OPERATIYE MANUFACTURE Manchester Department:— BLANKETS! BLANKETS! BLANKETS! best value. = WHEAT SHEAF 'OR EAGLE BRAND Union and All-Wool 8hirtings, from 6&d. to 1s. Ilhd. per yard. Sheets snd 8heetinge of all kinds. STAMPED ON THE SOLES OF EVERY BOOT AND SHOE A large stock of Flannelettes is now being held. Quilts in great variety, from gs. lid. Inmeasiag Sales in this Department osuse orowding on Sstsrdsy Good All-Wool Flannel, cheap. Nights. Membem who csn make it convenient, please make your pmahsses earlier ia the week, and give the Assistants s ohsnce to Flsxes, Ticks, Oxford Shirtings, Ac., Ac. show you the Stock l SUPPLIED. BOOTS AND SHOES CLOTHING CLU BS Furnishing Department: FOR ALITIjiIIIN AND WINTER WEAR, Newest Designs in Tapestry Carlains snd Table Covers. Crstcanss, Chintzes, IVimitisa, and Damasks. ChRdraa's Button snd Lace (4 to 6), fmm ls. 11d.; Girls' Nuggeted Table Covers, in Cotton, Printed snd Embroidered Cloth. (Y to 20), gs. 12d., do. (11 to 2), ge. lid., the very hest Boys' Wsher- ts (11to 1),fmm Se. lid., do. (It to 5), 4s. lid. Ladies' Cashmere Erillinery Department:— Slippers, fmm ls. Itbk; Phun Leather Sbppers, fmm le. lid. best Tbis Department has been entirely re-stocked with the Newest th's , in trade; Ladies' Cashmere House Boots, fmm ga. lid. ; Ladies' Goods for the Autumn Seastm, which embraces the latest (Ehgtxiss), Patent Cap, 4s. lid. ; Isahas' IBgh-lsg Kid Button, novelties in Millinery snd Mantles. snd Lace, from 5s. 11d. ; Ladies' Levant, Lace and Button, fmm 4s. lid. ; Elastics, from 3s. Ild. Gent's Sunday Boots in all CALI AIVD LOOK BOU2|fD OITB 8HOVVBOOX. shapes aud. styles, from 5s. lid. ; Army Bluohers, Sewn, from 5s. Ild. ; Working Boots, Nailed, from 4s. Ild. Ladies' snd Gentle- men's Boots made to measure, ls. extra, one week's notice required. ORESSMA KING sATtsfhcTtoH sgARAHTEED LINCOLN CO-OPERATVE QUARTERLY RECORD. TAI LORI N 0 DEPART M EN T.
We have just received a large consignment of Goods, including all the latest Novelties in OVERCOATINGS, SUITINGS, ancl TRQUSERINGS, snitable for the coming season. READY-MADES. We wish to draw pour special attention to our large sud splendid collection of
GENTS' MELTON AND BEAYER OYERCOATS, Cut iu the latest style, also a choioe eelectiou of Cape Overcoats, Nap and other Chesterfields. BOYS' snd YOUTHS' OVERCOATS in ever variety.
NAP REEPERS r NAP REFEERS r ' NAP REEPERS r t r
THE CELEBRATED
MANDLtBER8
r!WWss WATERPRGOF$, Ready-made or to Measure, in any style.
PPqqg A choice selection of READY-MADE, including THE CAPE OVERCOA. T,
gg rsrrpgg THE INVERNESS, And THE CHESTERFIELD. FREE F ROM ODOU R. Gents' Out6tting and. Fancy. Department.
GENTS' SILK snd FELT HATS in all the lesdiug styles. IfEN'8 snd BOYS' CAPS of every desoription. MEN'8 snd YOUTHS' CABDIGAN JACKETS, FOOTBALL JERSEYS, SHIBTS, COLLARS, GLOVES, T1ES, HANDKERCHIEFS MUFFLEBS, UMBBBLLAS, hc., drc.
rich assortment of GENTS' SOLITAIBES, CUFF LINKS, SCABF PINS, STUDS, kc., in all the newest designs.
COKFECTIOiVHRY DZPARTMEiA T. THE 00-OP E R AT I V E N EWS The greatest variety of ld. articles in the oity; also of Fancy AND Bread of all hinds. 3oilrll:II af Askari;Iiril jIII7II~trll Don't forget to try our celebrated gd. Lunoh Cshes in plum, seed, snd rice. Upwards of 800 sohl weehly. The O~l Orrjaa of Industrial aad Prooidcst Co-operatioa Socicticr. Also our Bioh Plmn snd Seed Breed st sd., le., ls. thL, snd ls. 4d. Spechrhtfes m Bich Cahes male to order, Birthday snd Wedding This paper may be obtained at the General snd tastefully ornamented and decorated. Oaices, or st any of the Brsnohee; and Boys sell it in Silver Street and Free Sohool Lane, w osrDKsrs s srouap'Tt % ATTKrcDED TD every Saturday evening. LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
Goods made by the following Productive Societies may
In Sit be obtained from the Central Stores, Silven Street, Bl or at any of the Branches.
Leicestev Co-opevative Boot and Shoe THE AIREDALE CO-OPERATIVE IVlanufactuving Society, Limited. WORSTED
ASK IN THE BOOT DEPARTMENT FOR THE MANUFAGTURING SOGIETY, LIMITED,
RELIABLE MAKERS OF DRESS GOODS IN GREAT YARIETY. "EAGLE BBAiVD Samples sent Societies on application. Presto shared by Workers, Purchasers, and Shareholders. Auusz so: BOOTS AxD SHOES. THOMPSOII'S MILL, Fulton Street, Bradford.
II'-PE HEBDEN BRIDCE FUSTIAN MANUFACTUBINC COVE]VII'-gY |,'0-OPEQQIIIIVR CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, LIMITED, 7Tatch Manu fa, cturiaF Society, MANUFACTURERS OF LIMITED.
Corfu, Moleskins, , Velvactet:ms, Aoaars: Taz Lxzcoxa Co-orzzarxvz Socxzrr, sxso Taz Mszcazsrzz Azn Scorrxsa Co-oxzzarxvz Waoxcxsauz Socxzmxa E in svcr7' Thrills, cs, var-iaty; Bound ENGLISH SILVER LEVER WATCHES seat to sny address an ALBO receipt of Pcstomce Order, or order from the Sesmtsry of s registemd Co-cperative Society, fbom SSs. Sd. To prevent delay, sll paresis, letters, sad telegrams shoaid be addressed to the Secretary, 85, bfoaat-street, Coventry. REAOY-MADE CLOTHING, PBESESTATIOE WATCHEB made to order. WATCH CLUBS Samples and prices on application. Agents: Co-operative Wholesale sappiiai through the Furnishing Department Societies, Manchester, Newcastle, London and Glasgow. TWO FIRST-CLaSS cr "A" CEBTIFICA1ZS Awarded to above Society by Watch Rahag Dspsrtmeat, Kew, on Twc GOLD KEYLESS diEVERS, December, NUT CLOUGH, HEBDEN BRIDGE. 1890, sad ifsy, 1891 Ncs. 59,541 and 69,658.
Leicester Co-operative Hosiery Manufacturing Society, NUTRITIAL MAKER 8 OF Shitts, Pants, Socks, Stockings, COCOA aCH0 CO LATE AND OTHER HOSIERY GOODS. tAKEXX~
IHAINES OITTIN. Cranboarne Street Mills, Lx i& x stet. LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
ie o-o erative io esa e ociet, LI M IT ED. Central OKces —I, BALLOON STREET, MANCHESTEB. Branches —NEWCASTZ E-ON- TYNE and LONDON.
The Co-operative Wholesale Society is a federatiou of nearlv 1,000 Retail Co-operative Societies, representiug 750,000 inclividual meuibers. Its Share, Loan, and Reserved Capital aruount to Oue and a Half Millions Sterliug. It carries on the trade of 'wholesale Dealers, Manufacturers, Bankers, Shippers, Rc., aucl cloes an aunual business of f8,000,000. The followiug goods are its chief productions, ancl they cau be purchased through any Co-operative Society. CO-OPERATI VE PRODUCT LOX 8:— BOOTS AND SHOES. The Society manufactures annually, at its leicester and Heckmondwike Works, over One Million Pairs of the «%heatsheaf" Brand of Boots and Shoes. These Boots are made from the very best materials, and for durability, esse, snd style, can be thoroughly recommended. BISCUITS, SWEETS, &C. The productions of the Crumpsall Works have so rapidly grown in favour, that in order to meet the increasing demand the manufacturing capacity of the Works has recently been doubled. All the principal kinds of Biscuits sre made, and special attention is given to the purity and excellence of the materials used. Boiled Sweets, Jams, and Marmalade also form an important part of the production of these Works. WOOLLENS. The Society's MiUs at Batley, Yorkshire, are replete with the most modern machinery, and there are now being manufactured some of the choicest patterns in Fancy Worsted Trouserings and Tweeds, also Indigo Blue Serges and Woaded Black Worsted Coatings. READY-MADE CLOTHING. Men' s, Boy's, Youth' s, and Juvenile Suits are made up iu a variety of styles and qualities at the Leeds and Batley Factories. Bespoke orders are attended to with accuracy snd despatch, and correctly fitting garments may be relied upon. SOAP, &c. The Spsp manufactured at the Lurham Works is noted for its genuine qualities, the aim being to turn put a gppcl honest srtiole. Dry Soap, Black Lead„and sundry goods are made at the Crcunpsall Works. An analysis pf Soap places it in a most favourable position in comparison with that of other makers. TEA, COFFEE, AND COCOA DEPARTS'IENT, LONDON, All kinds of Tess, Mixed, Packet, snd in Original Packages. Reliable and of the best qualities. Coffee Mixtures, «Whestshesf Brand. " Cocoas —Pure Concentrated Extract of Cocos, kc. LINCOLN CO-OPERATIVE QUARTERLY RECORD.
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SOLD AT THE CENTRAL STORES, THE WHOLESALE SHOP, MONTAGUE STREET, AND AT ALL THE BRANCHES.
THE RAPIDLY-INCREASINC SALES ATTEST ITS VALUE!
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