From: Colonsay, Saskatchewan, Canada
6 February 1931
Dear Staats Anzeiger!
Since friends have often encouraged me to write, today I want to do so and report that we have really nice weather, which rarely happens here. Indeed, we haven’t had winter yet. It looks like spring.
The status of health is good. There is no one on the sick list, with the exception of old Jakob Kobler. He is ailing a little.
We were very delighted with the report from Emmental, because any time you get to see such a report, your mind takes you back to your old homeland.
The very best hello to Adam Seifert. We would like to tell him how we gained a new reader because of his report. I cut out the report and sent it to my brother Elias who soon wrote, “Dear sister, order the Staats-Anzeiger for us, because we did not read the report only once, but several times.” Of course, we ordered the paper and my brother is happy now to have a good German newspaper.
German women, German faith belong
As German wine and German song
Shall in the world be abound
With their old, and pretty sound.
We received sorrowful news from home. Sophia Moldenhauer died. This is a hard blow for the orphaned children, but such is mankind: “Today red, tomorrow dead.”
Remaining your faithful reader,
Anna Moldenhauer