The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-12-02
CANNOT Bring Wife
MADISON MAN ANXIOUS As TO
FATE OF DEAR ONES IN WAR
RIDDEN WARSAW.

Three years and a half is a long
time for man TO be separated from
wife he adores. 1t is more weari-
some interval for one to undergo
without ever having looked upon a
bright-eyed, tow-headed, prattling
little girl, who at the age of 3 years,
has yet to enjoy the novel experience
I OF meeting for the first time her own
/ father
Phillip Stobowitz received a letter
4 from friends in st. Paul yesterday
Ii was written in a foreign language,
and to friends to whom he exhibited
/ it. il was just SO many lines of il
! legible chirography
But it meant great deal more to
/ Phillip Stobowitz. To him it convey
ed the information that only mir
acle can now reunite the family of
which he is head. and that in all
probability the little daughter he has
age before she and her mother can
come to him or he will be enabled
to rejoin them.
Saved Money Here.
Unversed in the English language.
and with only few dollars in his
pockets, Phillip Stobowitz, about
three years ago, came from his ma
tive town in Poland to the United
States. He was tailor by trade,
and he left his young wife in the old
country because he did not have suf-
ficient money TO bring her. and on
account of their mutual desire to
make home in a land where wages
were high, and where there was
promise of good education for their
unborn babe.
After pretty nearly three years
spent in one of the larger tailoring
shops in St Paul, Stobowitz came to
Madison to accept position in the
establishment of j V Regan
The land of his adoption had treat
ed him kindly. He had been able to
send home more money out OF his
weekly pay check than he could have
earned in six days in Poland. and he
was saving money besides He felt
that he was at last In IA position 10
embark upon the home OF his fancy;
that after years OF lonesome toll the
dearest wishes of his wife and him
self were about to be realized. A
ticket and money were sent TO his
wife, and Stobowitz inclosed a por-
trait of himself. in return for one
Mrs. Stobowitz had sent of herself
and the little one.
Letters Come Back.
Then came weeks of waiting, and
Stobowitz had long since reached
the conclusion that the letter had
been lost in transit. But such was
not the case. On the contrary. the
letter had been too well taken care
of AT Warsaw, where StobowitZ
thinks his wife and child still reside,
the letter was turned back without
being opened. Another letter which
followed was treated similarly.
Disparingly, Stobowitz wrote to
relatives in st. Paul for guidance in
bringing or at least In communicat
ing with his wife and child. The re-
ply from the Minnesota city came
yesterday. 1t was to the effect that
no assistance could be given now.
The relatives explained that they.
too. had lately tried to get letters to
or from friends in Warsaw, but that
since the German occupation of that
city they had been unable to do SO.
Stobowitz said today that he had
no means of knowing the present
plight of his wife and child He is
hopeful that they are with relatives
and are being we'll cared cor, but of
this he isn't sure.
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