From: Shields, North Dakota
8 December 1930

Dear Editor Brendel:

It’s about time that I am writing again. I am enclosing the funds for a subscription for a year for a new reader.

The farmer gripes about high and low prices. People in the cities say that they are still well off enough to make do, but I think it doesn’t matter so much in comparison to the poverty in Russia. We are all well off in rich America. (*Editor: I wouldn’t be so sure if we should get a Bolshevik government, but here we can prevent that.)

Message to Maximilian Kahl in Krasna, Bessarabia: His brother August has died almost two years ago in Canada. His wife Katharina nee Schuh resides in Fox Valley, Saskatchewan, if my information is correct. Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Dressler were unfortunate enough to lose two children one after the other. One was 2 years old and the other was just 3 months old. Such is life; one has joy, the other sorrow.

Our mail carrier, Friedrich Herzog had a tough time to get through the snow by car, mostly because he was by himself. He had taken the lady teacher with him to help, but since she would miss school now, he is by himself again. Don’t give up, Fred! The snow will go away - eventually.

Greetings,
Philipp Kahl