Word: hege
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Udder Trouble. It all began when sandy-haired Adin Hege, 52, a farmer in the Mennonite community at Maugansville, Md. bought a new cow. Adin discovered that the cow had an inflammation of the udder. He stopped payment on his check. Sued for the amount ($347), Adin went to court to explain his case. But Mennonite law forbids the brethren to settle disputes in court. Mennonite Bishop Mose's Horst announced that Adin had been excommunicated...
Flat on the Floor. At 6 o'clock one morning Farmer Hege was getting ready to milk his cows when a group of neighbors approached him for the first time since his excommunication. Before he knew what was happening, four of them had laid him flat on the stone floor before the milk shed. A woman shoved a hypodermic into his left arm. Adin soon lost consciousness, and was driven across the state line to Philhaven, another Mennonite mental hospital in Lebanon, Pa. No outsider might have known anything about it if a passerby had not chanced...
...needle, and nine of Adin's neighbors, Mennonites all, were fined a total of $6,000 for assault in a Hagerstown, Md. court. "We have a democracy, and you should subscribe to it," scolded the judge. But the law of the Mennonite community was still the one Farmer Hege had to deal with, and there he still stood condemned. All Hege need do to return to the fold, said Bishop Horst, was to "confess his error." Said Adin: "I think I'll leave it lay right...
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