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Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 6

The time was ft dismal December day. Tlio scene Toad street, Rochdale (savs the ' Daily Chronicle '). A little company of men stood, ill at ease, before a tumbledown shop, fast shuttered, hoping that the grinning, crowd in the background would disperse. The- crowd seemed disposed to wait, however, and see the fmi. so at last one bold fellow rushed forward, and had the shutters down, displaying &ll ch a tiny stock of humble .orrocories that the whole street broke into laughter. The first " cooperative stores," founded with £l4 worth of stock, was open. . . . That was in 1844. To-day three and a-'haJi million cooperators are preparing to seek direct parliamentary representation for their societies. Best milch cons have been, sold recentlyfor £6O in the Isle of Wight. At a meeting of the Cowes Council it was stated that at Chicihester cows had sold for £73 each. Cook: "And why was the new maid discharged?" Laundress : " Sure, it was because of her not attendin' to Pido: she Jet him get into the room where littlo Miss Bessie had the measles."