From: Emmental, Bessarabia
8 February 1921
Honored Mr. Editor!
Even though I am not a reader of the paper, I hope my report will not go into the wastepaper basket.
First of all, I want to thank the Staats-Anzeiger for helping me search for my friends. Since my inquiry I have already mailed three letters to my brothers-in-law Aloisius and Georg Kuhn in America, but unfortunately I have not yet received an answer. Was the address not reported correctly or is the postal connection bad or do the dear friends not write back? (*Editor: Aloisius Neubauer’s address is Mandan, N. Dakota, USA) I mailed the first letter on 1 November and told them everything in that letter. That’s why I am asking them to report if they received my letter or not.
The weather changed on 5 February. All winter long it was warm and dry, but now the ground is covered with snow. The snow is 1 arschin deep (1 arschin = 71 cm) which promises good prospects for the harvest. Now the farmer feels a little relief because the seed has now received the needed moisture.
The health conditions here are satisfactory. No one is on the sick list. Just a few people have a cough.
Unfortunately, I hear nothing from my friends on the other side of the ocean. I read the paper at Mr. Zachaeus Kopp’s house and found out that many acquaintances are getting the newspaper from over there. Perhaps I can hope that my cousins will send me the paper also. My cousins are Joseph and Gabriel Deichert, as well as Jakob and Johann Baumann.
I am greeting everyone heartily and remain respectfully,
Thaddaeus Deichert
This is to inform Joseph Wagner in Balmas, Bessarabia that his son Konrad in Broadacres, Sask., Canada paid for him to receive the Staats-Anzeiger for 1 year and he also sends his greetings. Please also report in the paper that Konrad remitted $8 with the request to send this money to you. We will do that. Would you please be so kind and report the receipt of the paper and the money to your son.
The address of the paper is: The Staats-Anzeiger, Bismarck, N. D., USA.
This is to inform Daniel Lauterbach in Krasna, Bessarabia that Anton Goldade in Mt. Angel, Oregon paid for you, as was your wish, for the Staats-Anzeiger for 1 year and he sends his greetings. Mr. Goldade hopes that from now on he will read, on and off, reports from you in the paper.
The address of the paper was already published.
This is to inform Georg Hintz in Balmas, Bessarabia that your brother Valentin in Revenne, Sask., Canada paid for the Staats-Anzeiger for you for 1 year. Valentin sends his greetings and asks you to also send reports from there to this newspaper.
The address of the paper has been previously reported.
From: Raleigh, Grant County, ND
22 February 1921
Worthy Editorship!
When Michael A. Volk and I drove together to our capital city on 21 February, I also ordered the Staats-Anzeiger. Up until then I had always read it at my father’s house. It is better to have your own paper.
I also looked at the editor’s business. The editor was very busy with his thousands of readers. So I didn’t stay long at the editorship, but went into the city and listened to people talk about politics, but the political fight is obviously not fought with clean weapons. Abusive words should not be used.
I am convinced that as long as both parties are pulling into different directions the taxes will never be lowered. It happens with the politics in North Dakota just like it happened with the powers during the World War. Everyone just thinks about himself or herself and the selfishness gets big.
One empire wanted to rule over the other and the fight was in the air, in the water, on the land and under the water. Every empire wanted to show their power and strove for glory and honor, but not for justice, and the poor soldiers had to sacrifice their lives for that. Thousands of American soldiers also fell prey to such vanity on the European battlefields or they drowned in the water and are now lying in the depth of the ocean. Other thousands died in the prime of their lives from illnesses, and still the fight for power and the dollar continues in the country and in the world. Such is the case here in North Dakota with the politics.
On 19 February, a man by the name of Morson drove his daughter, who is an elementary school teacher, home in his car. He came around a curve where his car slipped on the icy road and it turned over. The man broke his neck and died immediately, while his daughter was unharmed.
Now I am sending a greeting to all friends and acquaintances in Krasna, especially to Father David Loeb. If he writes I will have the Staats-Anzeiger sent to him.
Respectfully,
Lorenz Loeb, son of Peter