Source: Das Nordlicht, 5 May 1921 · 📰

From: Balmas, Bessarabia
2 March 1921

Dear Nordlicht:

Right at the beginning when I started to receive the Nordlicht, I told the editor that delivery of the paper was very irregular because my address was incorrect. I have moved from Larga to Balmas and Balmas does not belong to the Community of Larga. Therefore, my paper went through the Djamin Community and got lost half the time. (*Editor’s note: We changed the address immediately after receiving your first report and hope that the Nordlicht arrives more regularly now.)

We heard from Joseph Keller and family who left for America in November 1920. They arrived safe and sound after a 76-day voyage. All their friends were happy to hear that because we were all worried that a mishap had befallen them.

I would also like to tell Mr. Kasimir Reis in Anamoose, N.D. that the package with the stationary arrived and that I will be well supplied for a while. Thank you so very much! Also, heartfelt thanks for the Nordlicht subscription. (*Editor’s note: You are receiving the Nordlicht from the editor here, free of charge, in hopes of getting more reports from you and because you are a good old friend of the editor.) I now receive the Nordlicht, the Staats-Anzeiger, the Volksfreund and the Westlicher Herold newspapers. The delivery of the papers is so irregular that I often find myself without anything to read. I hope that situation will change. The people here really like the Nordlicht.

On March 23, we began our spring planting in dry weather. We had no moisture all winter and it doesn’t look like rain now.

The American newspapers are very popular here in Balmas, but there should be more of them. All you American fellow countrymen bring some joy to friends and family here and send a newspaper subscription. The Nordlicht is very economical at $2.50 per year. You could order a lifetime subscription for someone here without hurting your budgets and you would really make someone happy with it.

Greetings to all of you in the New World who are staying in touch. Write more reports for the paper!

Kind regards,
Romuald Dirk