From: Schaller, Morton County, ND
21 February 1913

I have lived in this area in Morton County for three years. There has been talk about building a church, but the community does not seem to be able to come to an agreement. One wants to build in brick, the other in wood and there is always a debate on where to put the building as well. Shall it be built in the beginning, the middle, or the end of the village! If this continues then we will never get a church.

Gabriel Bonokofski [Bonagofski] has so many mice in his house he has to shoot them with the squirrel gun. Gabriel, when a person doesn't have a good cat, he better be a good shot with the squirrel gun!

I want to give a present to Mr. Brandt as well and introduce a new reader, my brother Jakob in South Russia. (*Publisher: The paper was promptly mailed as already told to you in a separate mailing. Thanks very much!)

Greetings to my friends Magnus and Eugenius Miller in Canada, as well as to my brothers and my mother in Krasna, South Russia!

Sincerely,
Emmanuel Tischmack