From: Prelate, Saskatchewan, Canada
14 November 1920
Worthy Staats-Anzeiger!
Despite the cold I was able to get three new readers, namely Johannes Steiert, who said good-bye to the “Volksfreund” because it is working against the N.P.L., as well as Jakob Mayer from Fox Valley, Saskatchewan. Jakob paid for his friend Gottlieb Lacher, Sr. in Sarata, Bessarabia. He gave him the Staats-Anzeiger as a Christmas present. Herewith Jakob is asking his friend to let himself be heard from more often in the paper.
On 9 November, David Klein greeted his brother Jakob. They had not seen each other since1910. Jakob had been in Russia during the war. When the Bolshevist Revolution started, no one’s life was safe. His parents and siblings lost their lives and he fled to Germany where he stayed for two years before coming here. Ones flesh creeps when listening to him talk about the Bolshevists and their idea of freedom.
On 16 November, two Israelites are traveling to the Promised Land Oregon. They are the gentlemen Ludwig Mueller and Timotheus Sohn. They travel to scrutinize everything. If they like it they want to resettle there with bag and baggage.
A trip to Europe with a visit in Krasna, Bessarabia will be started on 20 November by the gentlemen Simon Riehl, Nikolaus Engel, Jakob Steinke and Romuald Gross. All four of them already have their passports. I wish them a happy journey and a happy return trip to Canada. Perhaps they will get to taste Uncle Anton Gedak’s wine when they are over there. He has made it appetizing for a long time. Go ahead and drink all the barrels empty so that he gets some peace and you too!
I am greeting my parents and my siblings in Krasna and all readers of the paper.
Melchior Gedak