From: Krasna, Bessarabia
16 March 1931

Dear Editor Brendel:

Rain followed the snowstorm of March 10. Although, there is still snow in the trenches, our creek is on the rise, but we are hoping it won’t flood. The roads are impassable. Even a four-horse team cannot get through as the heavy soil gets attached to the wheels and the horses are belly deep in the muck. We were promised an asphalt road in the spring, which is supposed to cost a few million. Collections are being made.

Life is on hold. No work and poor trade, time enough to hold dances.

Jakob Koch died on February 25 at the age of 62. He leaves behind his wife and children, some married, some not. – Katharina Folk, widow of the late Anton Folk, died on the same day. She was 88. – The widow of the late Gottlieb Leinz, Anna nee Habrich, died on March 9. She was 76 years old. May the Lord grant them eternal peace!

Members of the bank and the cooperative held a meeting on February 26 to discuss the founding of a new bank. There were no results. Another meeting is scheduled March 15.

The storms of March 2 and 3 caused much damage. The parsonage lost half a roof. It will cost a lot of money to buy aluminum and re-roof it.

Our mill owners sold their mill recently for one million Lei. The new owner is a Jew named Kain Gissmann, who has two years to pay for it. The sellers lost a heap of money since the new mill motor alone cost 1½ million Lei.

Korbinian Leinz and his son Eduard, who had the misfortune of getting bitten by their rabid dog, went to Kischinev yesterday to see a doctor.

Joseph Braun