Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1917-05-17

On the 10th of April we began sowing.
The sky was clear and the sun was
shining brightly. We planted cur early
potatoes on the 14th of April. From
April 18th to 28th we had cold waves
and the 18th 1t began to snow. showing
all day long and also through the en-
tire night. On Sunday. the Goth. we
a enough snow to play snowballing.
Today 1t is the first of May and the
weather is nice and pleasant.-Mary
Thilges.
-, Minn.-Dear Uncle IL
am going TO write about spring. Today
Is the 10Th of March, st Joseph's Day.
and the German church celebrates this
day. My father belongs to st. Joseph's
Society and they always receive Holy
Communion In a body on that day, but
this year he could not 60, because the
roads were bad, and we live twelve
miles from Winona.
21st Of March: 1t has been warm
and the snow has melted quite q bit.
1t is wet and muddy to go to school, but
we have good rubbers to keep our feet
dry. On some places In the road and
field we can see the bare ground. The
crows have been flying all day.
March 22nd: 1t is a nice warn day
and the now Is melting fast, but in the
evening we had a thunderstorm. 1t
Numbered and the lightning flashed.
1 saw a bunch Of wild geese today.
They went west.
March 18th: We have Mass today
In Wilson. but the roads are so bad
that we could not go with the sled, nor
the buggy, so we stayed at home and
prayed.
March 2Sth: The wind is blowing
from the northwest and 1t is cloudy.
My father, my brother and another
man were ~shoveling the road out. Some
places the snow Is all gone. while at
other places 1t is quite high. But.
while l am writing this, / hear a robin
sing.
April list: This is the first of April.
Palm Sunday. We have Mass and have
three miles to go. Our priest wanted
TO take q short cut over the field and
got stuck in the mud. He blessed the
palms and everyone received some.
Quite a number Of people went to Con-
fession and Communion. 1t was a nice
day.
April End: This morning l helped
clean up the house and then went to
school. While on the way. a runaway
passed me. II was so nice this morning
that my mother started 10 wash. Luck
lily our wash was dry when 1t started To
snow in the afternoon and the ground
was all white.
April Sth: Easter Sunday. 1t Is a
hiy hn1iInr W. rr1 a. - 49,,
church was decorated nice and very
many people went to Communion. The
weather was good and all kinds Of birds
we're singing.
April 18th: The roads are nice and
dry and the weather is also agreeable.
All last week the farmers were work
ing In the fields. The cars are out on
the road today. spinning back and forth
all the time 1t seems.
April 18th and 18th. The sixteenth
and seventeenth we had nice spring
weather, but the rest of the week IL
rained and hailed and was cold. The
farmers could not work I'm the fields.
because II was too wet. But the rain
made the flowers grow in the woods.
April 22nd: Today we had Mass and
Father Niles came out 1t looked like
rain, early in the morning, hut cleared
up. The two following days we had
nice weather. The farmers were all
working in the fields, but now IL is
showing and raining at the lame time
and is cold.
May 4th: 1t is the fourth of Nav
and the weather is fine. | went TO
school and at oon and recesses we
played lots Of games. We did not like
10 stay in the schoolhouse because IL
vas so nice outside.
May 5th: My two brothers are in
the field sowing grain. l think they
are almost finished seeding too. 1t
looks as though we are going to have
nice weather now?
THE niece or nephew who wrote this
letter forgot the date line, by which 1
could have learned where il comes
from, having mislaid the envelope. The
letter Was not signed either. will she
Of he, who wrote 1t. he so kind and
notify me immediately.-Der Onkel.)