From: Raleigh, Grant County, ND
20 November 1917
Worthy Staats-Anzeiger!
Recently a peculiar disease broke out among us. Some call it the Canada Fever. Everybody has the desire to immigrate to Canada.
Our neighborhood village St. Hildegard has built its new church. This is the second church built by this community this year. The first one burned down a month ago.
The outcome of the crop varied in our region. Wheat amounted to 7 to 20 bushels per acre, and on average about 10 bushels per acre. Rye amounted to 8 bushels, barley and oats from 15 to 20 bushels. Flax was weak. Some fields hardly produced enough for seed, others again brought in 2 to 3 bushels per acre. There was no Welsh corn harvested. Frost had damaged it already on 8 August.
Enclosed I send the amount for another year’s subscription to the Staats-Anzeiger. For a prize, please send me the World Atlas, so that one can at least follow the Italians, or else one will lose them.
A friendly greeting to the reader’s circle.
Max Erker