From: Santa Izabel, Brazil
25 May 1930
Dear Staats-Anzeiger!
First of all, we want to sincerely reply to the greeting, which Mr. Johannes Merz from Tschakowa had sent us. By now he is probably in his new homeland Canada and from there will make us happy with his reports.
We also reply to the greeting of our brother-in-law Johannes Nagel and send the best greeting to Franz Schwengler and family.
Furthermore, we answer the hello from Mr. Ignatz Ihli in Portreeve, Saskatchewan, Canada. We can also inform him that his son-in-law Alexander Becker is working with us for a week now on the coffee plantation drying the coffee. His wife, your daughter, is still somewhat sick. She recently had an appendectomy from which she is slowly recovering. We will write more about this later. The Ihly parents would make the daughter very happy by subscribing to the Staats-Anzeiger for her, because she feels very lonely in her current condition and is often homesick for her parents.
A greeting to the correspondent Johann Straub in Konstanza, Dobrudscha along with the notification that I can give him an orientation about the local jungle if he so wishes.
P. S. 29 May – I can add the following to this report, because it was delayed by a lack of the necessary stamps.
The shipping company in Kischinev contacted Mr. Markus Soehn with the request to obtain without delay, an entry permit to Brazil for his son, who had stayed behind and to return the document to the shipping company in Kischinev. Our neighbor Anton Schaefer should do the same for his sister Martha Schaefer in Balmas, Bessarabia. This will happen as soon as our police representative has returned from our capital city Sao Paulo.
The shipping company further made known that on 17 May, the following people from Krasna had departed Hamburg by ship with Rio Grande as their destination. The people are Anton Kuss, Theobald Nagel, Mathias Wutschik and Joseph Ternes.
In closing, I greet the correspondent Isidor Leinz in Krasna with the request to encourage our friends Erasmus and Genofeva Leinz to write again. It seems as if our friends have become conceited since they left Emmental. Well, Erasmus, that would be jumping over the line too much. Although you may have forgotten us, I am telling you that we are not that forgetful and we still think about you once in a while.
Joseph Foeth
From: Fox Valley, Saskatchewan
23 June 1930
Dear Staats-Anzeiger!
We just wanted to let our friends know that we are still alive and well.
We are asking our friends, especially Peter Leintz in Krasna, Bessarabia, who is receiving the Staats-Anzeiger to report about the old homeland in the paper. We would like to let Markus Soehn in Brazil know that we received his letter. We are sending greetings to him and also to Philipp Soehn and his wife and to Aloisius Herrschaft and his family.
We would like to know if our brother-in-law Joseph Wingenbach is already living among you.
With a greeting to the editor Mr. Brandt and his assistant C. J. Haag and all readers, I remain
Anton A. Soehn
Michael Volk Sr, son of Gabriel, died in the local St. Alexius Hospital on Saturday around 5 o’clock in the morning, after a short illness.
He was a well-known German farmer from the Raleigh area and a longtime reader of our newspaper.
As was reported already several times in this section, the deceased and Mr. Adolf Riehl and wife on their return trip from Canada on 24 June were in a terrible auto accident near Bismarck. The occupants suffered minor and serious injuries. The following day, 25 June, they arrived back home around noon driving a loaned car. Soon thereafter lightening struck the stable of Mr. Volk and he helped with extinguishing the fire. Because of the excitement, the scare and the injuries from the car accident, he had a stroke on the morning of 26 June. He had a second stroke on Wednesday, 2 July. He was immediately taken to the hospital in Bismarck. He never regained consciousness and died in the presence of his son-in-law Egidius Miller. His wife who was staying at the guesthouse close to the hospital arrived at his deathbed a few minutes before his passing.
The deceased had reached the age of 65 years and 3 months. He and his family came from Krasna, Bessarabia 25 years ago and homesteaded about 9 miles southwest of Raleigh, North Dakota. There he successfully operated a farm up until now.
The departed left his deeply grieving wife Helena, nee Riehl, daughter of Michael and 9 children. Three sons: Lazarus, Arsenius and Gebriel [Gabriel?] and 6 daughters: Nathalia who is married to Egidius Miller; Scholastika who is married to Daniel Dirk; Praxsela who is married to Felix Leintz; Solomea who is married to Kornelius Plotzke; Marianna and Margaretha who are both still single and live at home.
The body was transported by truck to Raleigh, North Dakota. There the funeral took place yesterday, Monday morning, administered by the Catholic Church in the cemetery of Gertrude’s parish.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the grieving bereaved.
May he rest in peace!