The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-02-08
OUR CLUB RAISERS.
Pithy Extracts From Their LetterS-WhO and
Where They Are.

Where They Are.
II enclose seven more Subscribers to TIE TRIB-
UNE, making forty-five in all, and expect to send
you sixteen more shortIy."-O ID. Blakesce, West
Merlden, Conn.
THE enclosed list of ten subscribers makes the
second CLUB that have sent you within month
cruits."-J. ;. Powell, Hoopeston, III.
"Our Post meets tonight and ] think will be
able to get some subscribers for you. p ST have
succeeded and enclose Si3 for thirteen new sub
scribers. Keep the ball rolling. y. W. Chrisnger
Macomb, III.
Enclosed please find 81 for another subscriber
bringing up the number of my club to eighteen. If
the boys III blue will only stand by TIE TRIBUNE
their enemies will soon be forced to surrender."-
John Regain, Easthampton, Mass.
az am soldiers daughter thirteen years old
My father has taken THE TRIBUNE for a year, and
he likes it much that he has determined to re-
new his subscription. So have got six recruits to
send along with his own subscription. Enclosed
please find S7."-Nellie NJ. Fcrgo, Chester, Conn.
Enclosed please find SIS for thirteen new sub
scribers to THE TRIBUNE, making twenty-five in
all that have sent you. What sent before We're
obtained by canvassing along the Slzirmish line ;
these last obtained on the line of battle. James
Kinney, Lafayette, Ill.
Enclosed please find $40 forte new subscribers.
which nv daughter has obtained for THE TRIBUNE
She SAYS she has asked every member of our Post
and think she will soon have some more to send
you."-P. II. O'Connell, Commander, Post No So
Danvers. Mass.
Enclosed please find money-ordcr for SIS for
which send THE TRIBUNE for eighteen of our boys,
all members of Custer Post No. 7, for one year. I
am firm believer in the principles advocated by
THE TRIBUNE Keep the ball rolling until all cy-
soldiers get their rights from the Government. M
Emery, Lewiston, Me.
81 enclose g for three new subscribers to TIE
TRIBUNE. ! subscribed for THE TRIBUNE on the
recommendation of an old comrade who stood Mt
my shoulder at the battle of Chickamauga, and
would not do without IT for twice the sum it costs
] lIne.''-JDln
Brewcrsville, Ind.
MY daughter has secured two new subscribers
for your valuable paper she is only thirteen years
old but she has become rs much interested as am
in THE TRIBUNE. Every ex-soIdicr in the land
should have the paper a companion SO long as it
is conducted in its present spirit &c. S. Engler
Temple, Penn.
Here we again with twelve new subscribers for
THE TRIBUNE. making twenty-five that / have
sent you. If some OF the towards who now
dcno,IncinG the soldiers were compelled to stand
before line of cannon and infantry Just once, they
would admit that the soldier don't get half that he
earned."-'Thos. Taylor, Ementon, Penn.
81 send you s. for five subscribers. This
makes fifteen in all that have secured for you. Ii
is hard work, for | have to travel over the noun
tains and my health Is not very good. Many of our
old soldiers have not yet received the pensions to
which they are entitled, and they can hardly spare
the money to subscribe Tor IHE TRIBUNE" -B. n.
Whitney, Rochester, VT
Enclosed find s. for five new subscribers. This
is in addition to the five sent You ON the 18th of
December. Comrade Armstrong, during the past
week has sent ten to be credited TO Post 80
that we have secured twenty new Subscribers
You know we started out tn get enough subscribers
for a. set of the Campaigns of the Civil War. to
form the nucleus of II Post Hbrary.'-John A. Ed
mission, Clinton, Ohio.
Enclosed please find 50 for nine subscribers
to THE TRIBUNE in addition to the ten which sent
you last December. ! received premium The
Roster Of i.egimental Surgeons which presented
to McCosn Post, No. III, Paola, Kansas, the
first volume towards Post library. | am fourteen
years old. My father member of company D.
Fifth Iowa cavalry. / hope to obtain eleven more
subscribers for you"-Carl Sherman, Paola, Kansas
"K have to confess that have been somewhat
pTcudced against soldiers papers in general, be-
lcving that they gotten out rather adVer-
Using mediums for claim agents than II source of
benefit to the soldier but upon sitting down and
quietly reading your paper, have been obliged to
change my mind, convinced, as am, that yours is
a genuine Grand Army paper, labOrng for the in
tercst of the Order and for the soldier. As the
suit of my conversion, please find enclosed list and
check for thirteen subscribers This IL my first
Offering and you may rest assured that shall keep
sending till every cOmrade OF this Post who is
not already n subscriber becomes one. Should this
meet the eye OF any of my old comrades of the
One Hundred and Sixteenth New York volunteers
! would advise them to try your papcr."-Wiam
Holden, Commander of IL. w. Vessels Post Port
vile, n. Y.