AMERICAN BEK JOURNAL. 



825 



BTJSIXESS STATEMENT. 



Balance, as per last Report $623,08 



Fees from 461 members for 1892 . 461.00 



1,084.08 

 Expenses for the year 362.87 



Balance, Dec. 16, 1893. ... .$721.71 



The Union has engaged attorneys for 

 the defense of several cases, the cost for 

 which will have to be paid later. 



The efforts last winter to increase the 

 membership were not as fruitful as we all 

 hoped, on account of the financial disturb- 

 ances throughout the Country, but better 

 times are before us, and the Union will not 

 be forgotten. 



Dues and Election of OfBcei's. 



It now becomes my duty to call for $1.00 

 for the coming year, as dues from each 

 member. A Blank is enclosed to be used 

 for seoding it, and also a Voting Blank. 

 Fill up all the blanks, and send to the 

 Manager with a postal note or money-order 

 for $1 in the envelope sent with it. It must 

 be received by Feb. 1, 1894, or the vote 

 will be lost. 



When voting, care should, of course, be 

 taken to put into office its best and most 

 reliable members, (a good selection can be 

 made from the list of names attached to 

 this Report, and such only are eligible.) 



As long as my services are desired and I 

 am able to devote them, the Union will 

 have my best energies. Fraternally, 



t^T^ztt^ 



149 South Western Avenue. CHIC'ACO, ILr.. 



Oerieral Manager. 



Big: Ollfer to Reme>vals. — We 



would like to call the attention of those 

 whose subscriptions expire with this 

 tDonth, to the following paragraphs, in 

 which we make a grand offer : 



Of course we hope to have your renewal. 

 With such offers as we are now making, 

 you certainly cannot refuse. There is no 

 other bee-paper in the United States in 

 which you get so much value for so little 

 cost as in the American Bee Journal at 

 ^S^l.OO a year; and we trust, moreover, that 

 our old subscribers will show their appre- 

 ciation of our effort to give them the best 

 bee-paper at the lowest price, by prompt 

 renewals. Will not you ? 

 . Another Matter.— With such a journal 

 as we are publishing, and such terms as we 

 are offering, we ought to double the circu- 

 lation of the Bee Journal before spring. 

 If each of our present subscribers will 

 promptly renew, and at the same time send 

 us one new subscriber, this will be accom- 

 plished at once. 



Now, to secure oni' new subscriber to a 

 H'eekhj paper like the Bee Journal, pub- 

 lished at only only $1AH) a year, is certainly a 

 very little thing for any one to do. It 

 would seem that any subscriber could 

 afford to do that as an expression of appre- 

 ciation of the opportuijity to get the paper 

 for himself for only $1.(1)0 a year. But we 

 don't ask you to do thatl 



We Will Do BetterI^-K you will, be- 

 fore Jan. 15, 1894, send us your own re- 

 newal for one year, and send with it one 



new yearly subscriber, we will consider it a 

 club of two, and give you any premium 

 offered for sending two new subscribers, on 

 page 773. 



Now we know you never had an offer 

 from any other bee-paper that would com- 

 pare with that. Just look at it all through. 



1st. We furnish you a weekly bee-paper 

 for only .?1.00 a year. 



2nd. We give a premium for sending a 

 club of only two subscribers. 



3rd. We allow you to count your own 

 subscription as one of the club of two. 



Surely, we have a right to hope that 

 eim-y expiring subscription will at once be 

 renewed, and at least one new subscriber 

 be sent with it. 



Why, on such offers as we are making, if 

 you have not time to go out and get the 

 new subscriber, you could afford to send 

 the paper to some person as a Holiday 

 present. It would then only cost for your- 

 self and your friend about as much as your 

 own paper would usuaily cost, and you 

 would get your club premium besides. 



Let us have your renewal, and do all you 

 can to extend the circulation of the old 

 American Bee Journal. 



"WTien Renewing Your Subscription, 



why not send along one or more new sub- 

 scribers, and take advantage of our liberal 

 premium offers on page 767 of this copy 

 of the Bee Journal ? You certainly can 

 easily secure the subscribers, if you will 

 show them that they also receive their 

 choice out of several free premiums. Try 

 it, and see what you can do. 



