Source: Dakota Rundschau, 12 December 1930 · 📰

From: Krasna, Bessarabia
14 November 1930

Dear Editor Brendel:

The farmers are longing for a good rainfall, which does not want to come. We had a little rain on November 9, but not enough.

The widow Katharina Haag died on November 9, she was 74 years old. Please advise her son, Cyrillus Haag in Bismarck, North Dakota. Karl Soehn died November 10, he was 47 years old. He leaves a wife and four unmarried children. May God grant them eternal peace.

Weddings: Josef, son of Thomas Folk, and Theresia, daughter of Zachaeus Dirk. – Johannes, son of Konrad Folk and Agnesia, daughter of Martin Weber. – Peter, son of Narzisius Kuss and Apolonia, daughter of Martin Weber. Much luck to the young couples!

Mr. Felix Braun asked me to send greetings to his brother Zachaeus Braun in Strasburg, North Dakota by way of this publication. He asks for a sign of life and would love for Zachaeus to get him a subscription to the Rundschau for a year. He sends his thanks in advance.

Krasna has gypsies in the village because chickens and pigeons are disappearing. A Russian, who stopped at a farm a day ago and spent some time visiting, found pieces of his harness missing from his wagon. A search was in vain.

Our Wagoners were in the 50 Werst distant settlement of Walentirovka recently and had to stop in Kloestitz [Klöstitz] on their way back to have a glass of wine. The gathering grew; one glass led to the next and finally came a disagreement. One of our Jews, Axel, son of Ressl, who lost a leg in the war, sat there as well drinking wine and eating pig sausage. Axel received a hard enough blow to cause him to fall off his chair and yelling for help, “Jesus, Mary and Josef, help me!”

“Why are you calling upon the saints? Why aren’t you calling on your Messiah?” someone yelled and hit him again.

The end of it was that the party left for home with knife wounds and bandaged heads.

Mr. Johannes Kuntz sends greetings to his brother Martin Kuntz in Raleigh, North Dakota and to the children. He asks Martin and his sons to please send him a subscription to the Rundschau for a year. The paper arrives here always on time and everyone loves to read it.

I would like to greet my Uncle Anton and Aunt Elisabeth Ternes and sons near Ipswich, South Dakota and to my siblings’ children Adam, Augustin and Andreas Braun. It would be nice if these gents would answer my letters once in a while!

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

Joseph Braun