From: Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada
17 April 1920

Worthy Staats-Anzeiger!

We are already far into April, but the plow is still standing unused. Right now it is again snowing with delight. The feed is gone for a while already and the cattle have to find their sparse and meager food on the prairie on their own.

Raimund Wagner is at our house today and brought a letter, which he received from his sister from Krasna, Bessarabia. She asks in the letter how Edmund Winter is doing. I am letting her know through the Staats-Anzeiger that Edmund Winter had passed away already in November 1918. He left behind his wife and 5 children. His wife Marianna has married again to a widower who also has 5 children.

My Uncle Peter Ihli and Johannes Steinke were also with us for lunch. They too wanted to know what the paper is reporting. (*Editor: Unfortunately the Staats-Anzeiger is not an information bureau. The people should personally take care of their private affairs. The postal service with Bessarabia has been operating for 6 months now. Why don’t the people write personally to their relatives in the old homeland?)

I would like to ask my friend Zachäus Kopp in Emmental to write in his reports about how my parents are doing and if they are still alive. I cannot comprehend why I don’t receive a letter from the old homeland. I would have gladly sent the paper to my father and also money, but it seems like it arrives seldom.

I am greeting the readers and the editorship.

Lorenz Mass