Source: Dakota Rundschau, 28 November 1930 · 📰

From: Krasna, Bessarabia
30 October 1930

Dear Editor Brendel:

It has rained some here, but not enough to plant the winter harvest. Fourteen farmers finished their fields and the grain is looking good, but one can see that the moisture is lacking.

We see many more grasshoppers, but they can’t do any damage anymore, although they should be cause for concern for next year. People are talking about ways to get rid of them.

Weddings: Korbinian Engel, son of Simon, and Clara Mueller [Müller], daughter of Anton. – Married on October 15 and October 28 respectively: Josef Krams, son of Martin, and Margaretha, daughter of the late Heinrich Riehl. – Kasper, son of Adam Leinz and Leogatia Haag, daughter of Maximilian. – October 22: Otto Schreiber, son of Erasmus and Theresa Ternes, daughter of Hieronymus. Best wishes to the four couples!

A message to Kasper Marthe in Prelate, Sask – Your mother is very fond of the Rundschau and reads my paper. So perhaps you could send a report from there, motherly love never dies.

When the dog gets bored it begins to chase its tail, and when the young men don’t have a useful occupation, they pit themselves against each other when they get together. That is what happened here last Sunday night. They began to fight as a joke at first, but soon the battle turned serious and the son of Josef Gedak ended up in the hospital with an injured skull. Let’s hope the youngsters learned their lesson from this mishap.

A group of drunks in another part of town began beating on a husband and wife. Other men jumped into the fracas and the youngsters ended up on the short end of the stick.

Mr. Viktor Nagel sends greetings to his nephews, Michael and George Nagel in Shields, North Dakota. They are all well here and he would appreciate a subscription to the Rundschau. His thanks in advance!

The following people are preparing to leave for Brazil: Widow Margarethe Menges and her two sons-in-law, Maximilian, son of Johannes Dirk and Bernhard Leinz and their families. They are waiting on their passports. More about it later.

I am sending my regards to Alex Dirk in Fox Valley, Sask. and ask him to please let me know how my friends Mr. and Mrs. Peter Harsche and Mr.& Mrs. Anton Soehn [Söhn] are doing. We are fine here and send greetings to all our friends. Please give a sign of life via this publication.

Grain prices are weak. Barley fetches 16 Lei/Pud, corn 29 Lei and wheat 40 Lei. Whatever the farmer needs is expensive. Today the water has a little ice on it. A sign that winter is coming.

The two refugees, Schmalz and Bertsch, are sending greetings to Mr. Brendel and their friends in America and Canada. They are happy and Bertsch was especially glad to see himself in print in the Rundschau of October 3rd. His many thanks!

Mr. Oswald Wagner greets his brother-in-law, Georg Harsche in Shields, North Dakota. He would appreciate one of his American friends to send him a subscription to the Rundschau for one year.

Greetings to the editor and staff, and all the readers here and there.

Joseph Braun