From: Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada
2 June 1920

Valued Staats-Anzeiger!

We had to endure a hard winter. In addition to that we had to buy the feed for the horses and cattle. Often you couldn’t even get feed for your money. The seeding was also late, since our work was hindered by snow and by storms in April. But now all of us are done with sowing. The wheat does not look very good. We should be getting some needed rain.

Fidelius Deichert who is living here visited with me and by chance we also talked about the old homeland. He mentioned that he hadn’t heard anything from his relatives in Krasna, Bessarabia in nearly 2 years. He had sent money to his mother Elisabetha Deichert but hasn't heard anything about that either.

Perhaps someone of the readers in Bessarabia could report to the Staats-Anzeiger where Mrs. Elisabetha Deichert and her sons Thomas, Alexander, Paulus and Emanuel Deichert are residing.

With a friendly greeting to the editor and the readers I remain respectfully,

Paulus Wingenbach