From: Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada
10 May 1920
Worthy Staats-Anzeiger!
Since I have read many reports from friends and acquaintances from the old homeland Bessarabia, I would like to once again be heard saying something in the paper.
At this time we are busy with spring seeding, but since it has been raining hard today we can’t do anything in the afternoon. Naturally, we are hoping for a rich harvest if the weather remains favorable, which we badly need after the last two poor harvests. The increase in the cost of living is more and more noticeable here.
I received letters from Michael Riss and Joseph Gross from Emmental, but unfortunately I haven’t heard anything from my mother-in-law and don’t even know if she is still alive.
Zachäus Kopp should be heard from in the Staats-Anzeiger more often, because all of us like to hear news from the old homeland. I still have a brother-in-law Joseph Miller Jr. over there. If he should send word and would like to have the Staats-Anzeiger, then I will order the paper for him. Also my old friend Leonhard Plotzki should write.
The health conditions are quite good here.
I am greeting all my relatives and friends in Emmental and Krasna, especially the gentlemen Zachäus Kopp and Romuald Dirk, as well as all the readers.
Joseph Hittel