Business: Co-Ops

On the shores of Minnesota's Lake Minnewaska is a little town called Glenwood, which is 26 miles west of Sauk Center, birthplace of Sinclair Lewis. Glenwood is also near Cottonwood, birthplace of the first U. S. oil & gas cooperative. Because Cottonwood could not accommodate a convention which observed the 15th anniversary of the founding of its filling station, because Minnesota is the most co-operative State in the Union and because International Co-Operative Day falls on the first Saturday in July, Glenwood played host last week to nearly all the leading cooperators in...

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