From: Emmental, Bessarabia
1 November 1931

Dear Staats-Anzeiger!

Anton Frison from Bender has sold his property there and bought the farm including 10 ½ desjatine (1 desjatine = 2.5 acres) of land from Wendelin Nagel for 89,500 leis. Wendelin Nagel had previously purchased this farm from Ambrosius Leintz. Mr. Frison is our neighbor now across the street.

In the fall of last year, 12 couples were married here. This fall however, there will be fewer weddings. Up to now only 3 weddings have been announced. Alexander Reis will marry Dorothea Nagel, daughter of Dominik Nagel; Joachim Kuss will marry a bride from Krasna, whose name I do not know; and then a Moldavian who had converted to the Catholic faith who grew up here and speaks German well. He will marry Genovefa Gross, the daughter of Johannes Gross the shoemaker.

Start of a summary: (As has been made public, the government will pay 22,000 leis for each desjatine land it has taken from owners. Therefore, Joseph Bleile will receive 52,000 leis from the bank.

I, Adam Seifert, left yesterday morning to buy some meat. I met up with Aunt Scholastika and Uncle Joseph, Rochus Maass and Ewald Mueller. We got together and drank wine, talked and read a report in the Staats-Anzeiger written by Joseph and Klara Mueller in Canada.

Ewald Mueller asked me to greet his sister Rosa and brother-in-law Daniel Hittel in Canada from him through the Staats-Anzeiger. They are hereby also informed that their mother Anna is old and frail. I visit her often. She always offers me wine, which Hyronimus has to fetch from the cellar. Hyronimus is my cousin and he also seeds my land for half the take of the crop.

We spent about two hours with Rochus Maass. After that we visited Michael Baumann. I bought one desjatine of Welsh corn from him for 300 leis. Michael and Marianna live in poverty. From Michael I went to the co-op store and made some purchases.) End of summary.

Recently, a tragic incident occurred in Kainari. The daughter of Mrs. Borach (many people over there from Emmental should know Mrs. Borach) was married to a Moldavian, who is the chief of police in Kainari. His policemen alerted him to the fact that whenever he was away someone was visiting his wife. He wanted to find out for sure and told his wife that he had to attend to some business in a neighboring village and left soon thereafter. However, he returned home sooner than expected and found that things at home were not in order. He shot his wife who died a short time later. When her mother arrived, her daughter was already a corpse. The chief of police was jailed immediately. Mrs. Borach whose husband is no longer alive still has a business selling sausages.

On the sick list are the following people: Katharina Kopp, wife of Emil Kopp is seriously ill in the hospital in Kischinev; Agatha Mueller, wife of Ewald Mueller and Faustina Maass, nee Huettel are also seriously ill.

In closing, I greet all readers and the editor Mr. Brandt.

Adam and Pilagia Seifert