Mr. Henri Torlotting, Instructor
Feves (Moselle) France

It has been quite same time since I wrote you last, and trust that you, your wife and all our friends of Feves have had good health. I also trust that your people have had a bountiful harvest this year. We have had an abundance of rain here this summer and the crops were damaged by not being able to harvest them at the proper time due to the wet weather. Our corn crop is very good. and is the best we have had in a number of years. The wheat was good, what people were able to get. We here at Morganville have been busy, the health of the people has been good.

I am wondering whether you ever got my letter written last April in which I thanked you and the people of Feves for the beautiful wood carving you people sent us. It arrived in fine shape and it something we are proud to have from you folks.

My sister Anna and her room mate are touring Europe this summer and fall and are now in Stuttgart, Germany, visiting my sister room mate's brother who is a captain in the American military police at that place. She would like to make a visit to Feves sometime along the last of this mouth if it is agreeable to you folks, or the first part if October. I am enclosing her German address, and suggest that you write to her at that place, letting her know what time would be convenient to you folks. I am also mailing some school packages for her to distribute to your address and trust that they get there in time for the occasion. In case they are not there yet, [you] can distribute them to the school children for us. Our school started here last Monday and the children are all happy to be back. My boy is still in the Navy and is a supply officer stationed on a ship out of Norfolk, VA. Our daughter is away to college, which is her first year at that place and she likes it very much, so that leaves my wife and I by ourselves. When the children are gone, it makes one realize that we are getting old. Billy and Ed Utley are back to work at Kansas City, after having a nice three-months vacation. They showed us all their colored pictures which they had taken of Feves and you people there. They were very good and it makes one better acquainted after seeing you people.

I hope you will have no trouble in getting this letter translated in time to get in touch with my sister before she starts back to the States.

Our greetings to Mayor Berne and his wife, the priest, to you and your wife and all the other good people of Feves.

Sincerely,

Daniel J. Roenigk
Mayor of Morganville, Kansas