This is a beautiful place and we are within 1/2 block of Prof. Stroeter’s home. I telephoned over to Adolf, who is with Max in a Sanatorium in Schierke, about an hour’s ride with the cars from here. We took dinner at Stroeters’ and celebrated the third anniversary of John L. Nuelsen, Jr.’s birthday. He…

Took train for Schierke, where we arrived about 11 o’clock and found Cousin Adolf Jacoby waiting for us at the depot. He reminds me of Uncle John, for he has a good deal of his mannerism. He had been in America and Australia in his early youth, “roughing it,” and he certainly is an old…

I went to a genuine German Erbanunstunde, which is held by the earnest Christians of the Staats Kirche (church of the state) after the regular service in a small hall. Prof. Stroeter read a few verses from the Bible and explained them, after which several of the audience offered up a short earnest prayer and,…