Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This assessment would not amount to more than $2 or $3 per member, and every member who really makes use of his privileges saves more than this in six months. In future years the cost of membership might be doubled. Members would still find it more convenient and more to their advantage to patronize the Co-operative than to buy elsewhere. While the increased entrance fee would determine them to make all use of all advantages that their membership gave them; for the more they bought through the Co-operative, the less would be the percentage they paid...
...society was enlarged generally. As a result, last year was the first really successful year of the society's existence. Basing their calculations on these results, the superintendent and directors decided on certain additions and enlargements in the business and work of the society, calculating on a membership of one thousand and five per ct. profit on transactions. But it turns out that they have a membership of only 790, with proportionately less transactions, and have retained but three and a half per cent. on the transactions. This, continued through the year, would leave the society with a deficit...
These figures have disappointed the reasonable expectations of the direct ors in two respects. They had looked for a membership exceeding 1000, with a proportionally increased business ; and they had counted upon a rate of profit not less than five per cent. It is believed that the profits must have been greater than the figures indicate, and it is possible that the small percentage of profit appearing is due to mistakes in the inventory of stock recently taken...
...membership of the Co-operative Society of the University of Michigan numbered about two hundred and fifty members a month ago, and the cash transactions of the previous ten weeks amounted to about two thousand dollars...
...officers of the Society of Christian Brethren for the second half-year are as follows: President, A. E. Strong, '85; secretary, C. F. Carrier, 85: treasurer, G. P. Knapp, '87; and librarian, A. T. Dudley, '87. The membership of the society is at present over eighty...