From: Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada
27 July 1921
Worthy Staats-Anzeiger!
The harvest here did not turn out well. We only yielded 1 to 10 bushels of wheat per acre. In other parts of Canada it is better. On the 11th of this month, several friends from here traveled to Elnu (?). There the harvest was between 30 to 35 bushels of wheat per acre. That sounds good!
That is where the wedding of Rochus Moldenhauer and Marianna Wolcker took place, and to which I was also invited. But on the morning of the departure, I had severe pains in my foot and I felt so weak that I had to go to bed and could not go along. The rest of the invitees, my brother Daniel, Lorenz Maas and L. Riehl with their wives, then traveled without my wife and me. They returned on the 19th and reported that they had had good times at the wedding.
Hopefully, we will get some rain, which would be good for the potatoes and also for the late oats and the flax. The prospects are that we can start cutting in about a week.
The health conditions leave nothing to be desired.
Mr. Zachaeus Kopp is being asked to write more often. We are pleased about every report he is sending from Emmental.
In closing, I am greeting all friends and acquaintances here and there and wish the newlyweds much luck and God’s richest blessing in their new marriage!
Respectfully,
Joseph Hittel