From: Dodge, Dunn County, ND
7 February 1920
Worthy Staats-Anzeiger!
We were unbelievably happy when we found the report from Mr. Anton Gedak from Krasna, Bessarabia in the Staats-Anzeiger. We were finally able to find out something about our home village.
We were painfully touched when we read the list of people from Krasna who were killed in the war, since there were several of our relatives and friends among them. Johannes Kuntz is my brother’s son, and Romanus Erker is my brother-in-law’s son. We are mourning for the dead along with the relatives of the fallen. Gedak, dear friend, don’t slack off in writing. If it weren’t for the dear Staats-Anzeiger, we would not have found out anything from our home village Krasna. Through this good newspaper however, one learns news from all over the world.
I would like to ask my friend Gedak to greet my brother Johannes Kuntz and my brother-in-law Adam Erker and encourage them to write.
With my heartfelt greetings,
Mathias Kuntz
From: Prelate, Saskatchewan, Canada
9 February 1920
Worthy Staats-Anzeiger!
Responding to the report from Mr. Anton Gedak from Krasna, I would like to write a few lines to the paper. Most of all I am informing Mr. Gedak that his sister and her children are still alive. The oldest daughter and her husband are living here in our city.
I have tried to get information from my home village from my relatives who live there, but up to now all my letters remain unanswered. Perhaps Mr. Gedak would be so kind as to give me some information through the Staats-Anzeiger about my mother, my brother Simon and about my two sisters and their families.
All of us here are still very healthy, but we also have had a lot of hardship in the past years. For three years, we have not had a harvest and the prices for everything one has to buy are probably higher here than over there.
You take your grain to the market and sell it as you like. However, we have to sell our wheat at a price set by the government, namely for $1.92 per bushel. The people, who don’t have enough seed, pay $2.85 per bushel. One can do nothing against such deeds.
The weather here is fairly good and God willing we may perhaps have a rich harvest this year.
A friendly greeting to my mother and all my siblings and friends.
Michael Engel