From: Schaller, Grant County, ND
22 August 1920

Valued Staats-Anzeiger!

We have finished the harvest and we no longer hear the clatter of the reaping machines. Since our crops were severely affected by the heat, the linkage arm to the sickle mechanism picked up a lot of dirt. Repair parts were hard to come by. Therefore many farmers used bacon rinds as casters and had to improvise linkage bearings with leather (green chrome leather).

The results of the harvest were not good. The summer wheat had grown well, but then the black rust set in and the ears turned barren. The grasshoppers too brought havoc to the fields. They harvested three quarters of my spelt (German wheat) and I got one quarter.

The health conditions are not the best either. The wife of Alex Herzog near Shields, North Dakota, died. On the 17th she was still in the field. That’s when she complained about not feeling well. Mr. Herzog took her to Bismarck, where she died on the operating table. She left behind her deeply grieving husband with 4 children. The oldest child is 12 years old and the youngest child is 4 months old. The wife of Reinhold Tischmak is suffering from appendicitis.

I greet the editorship as well as all readers of the paper.

Korbinian Kahl