A42-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 18, 1998
(Continued from Pago AID)
ried last fall, slim and trim then,
now may have to bend forward
to kiss their young husbands
good-bye as he dashes off to
work. Amish carpenter crews in
pickup trucks loaded with their
trade tools cruise into the local
Turkey Hill for a brace of coffee
and donuts and off towards
Philly or Baltimore or Paoli or
Harrisburg to build houses or
barns. Little did they know this
proved to be a bad influence for
some.
At the welding shops and
woodworking shops Amish men
and boys greeted others with a...
Gota moria, vee bisht do?
“Good morning, how are
you?”
All over the Pequea (Amish
word for our Lancaster set
tlement, named after the Pe
quea Creek) the work day had
begun, no one even had dreamed
what would take place.
It came about 8 a m., a brace
of FBI agents, probably assem
beled in the City of Brotherly
Love at an early hour, received
their orders. Sipping coffee, they
slipped west on 202 or 76 or route
30, like a coon snitching sweet
corn they picked up their
charges at gunpoint, in the name
of the United States of America
to preserve the law and the con
stitution, handcuffs snapped on,
and one by one the lawbreakers
were picked up and the ordeal
had begun.
One Amish youngster saw it
happen as one of the Pagans was
nabbed. He noticed several cars
parked at this Englishman’s
(Amishman’s word for non-
Amish) residence and a man
lying in the yard. The Amish
youth left his farm work, dashed
to the scene, thinking there had
been an accident. The gun-toting
FBI quickly shooed the boy
Real Estate & Personal Property
The Estate Of Charles and Adeltha Pratt
Rt. 26, Upper Lisle Rd, Whitney Point, NY
10:10 AM, Saturday, July 25,1998
Directions: 1-81, Exit 8 (Whitney Point), North on Rt 26,4 miles. Watch for Auction Arrows.
Real Estate: Older 4 brm, kit, DR, LR, Parlor, Den/Laundry on +/- acre LAKEVIEW AND
LAKE FRONTAGE (Frontage usage restrictions per USACoE) on Whitney Point Reservoir
Terms; House sells "AS-IS" Any testing must be arranged and paid for by prospective buyer
prior to the auction $3,000 Down Payment in cash or certified fund at Auction, Balance at clos
ing in 30 days or less Property sells subject to very reasonable executor confirmation
Open House: 6-7 Thursday, July 23, 1998, or call for appt
Personal Property; ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES: Old bottles, including flasks, milk,
cream, medicinal, canning jars, insulators, knives, cleaver, Fishing tackle, split bamboo fly rod
m wooden case, rods and reels-casting, spinning, fly, flies, lures, tip-ups, ice auger, tackle old
and new. Miniature lamp collection (+/-7S) Thimble collection (+/-I00), Spoon collection (+/-I00),
Tom Thumb' cash register, 3 wooden clarinets ( 9 ) in old leather case. Oak beveled glass hall
mirror with 6 double coat/hat hooks, small silouhette w/dned flowers under glass, buttons.
Fanes walnut marble too mirrored dresser and matching marble too wash stand, wash stand
2-bar towel rack, unusual pressed glass light fixture, 2 art deco iron floor lamps, crocks, jugs,
bamboo shelf, early one drawer stand, oak parlor stand, Library table, 2 flat top trunks, deco 5
piece bedroom set, deco vanity, hall tree, 2 drawer sewing stand, pictures, prints, frames, comic
books, old newspapers, Rayo Lamp, opera glasses, old lamps, Wagner and other cast iron, tin
ware, painted Deco dining room furniture, Diehl fan, lots of smalls too numerous to mention and
we are still discovering l GUNS: Mossberg bolt action 22 w/scope, 20 gauge bolt
action w/scope, TOOLS Old hand tools, 4" jointer, 8' table saw, FURNITURE & MODERN
microwave, washer, dryer, dinette set, sofa, chairs, beds, chests, recliner, sewing machine,
lamps, desk, OTHER: 1994 CHEVROLET CORSICA, red, 4 door, auto, air, 4 cyl, p.s., 38k
miles, JD 520 FARM TRACTOR, narrow front, p.s., 3 pth, hand and foot clutch, ser. 520
8316, 12' Duranautic BOAI w/6hp Seahorse MOTOR & TRAILER, Etc., Etc., Still dig
ging! Car, tractor and boat sell at 12 noon.
Auctioneer's Note: Mr Pratt worked many years for the Whitney Point DPW and local ceme
teries He was an avid fisherman Mrs Pratt did crafts, etc This estate is virtually untouched and
presents a great opportunity to purchase these items directly from the estate auction
"CHARLIE" MANASSE 607-692 7516
Auctioneer Broker Assoc Member NYSAA, NAA & PAA
ERA Decker Real Estate 607 692-7665
"Charlie" Sez," The summer foliage is green,
Buy this house, Make your dreams come true!
See Y'all at 10:10 am, Saturday, July 25.
from a safe distance as the cul
prit was handcuffed and loaded
in the paddy wagon.
It seemed so brash for the 3
Amish families to have their
sons indicted by the FBI. No
doubt whole families were in
tears as the news broke out.
Probably these parents had
pleaded with their offspring
many times to travel with more
conservative friends. The one
family only had 2 boys, both
adopted, the other families both
had the traditional half dozen
children.
Sie ben unsa bova veck gam
ma.
“They hauled off our boys.”
In Amish jargon, any youth
from age 16 till marriage
(which can be at age 21 to 30) is
called a boy, after marriage
then he is called a man.
The day wore on, cows
grazed in the meadows, many
farmers mowing alfalfa, horse
their neighbors and saying.
Des is shlim.
“This is bad.”
In the metal shops, machines
stopped, welders laid their hel
mets aside to discuss the sad
news.
We all asked ourselves, vas
vor letz, what went wrong? How
could this happen in our peace
loving church, insulated, but ap
parently not enough from the
outside. I’ll make an attempt to
explain.
We’ve always had contact
with the outside, selling our
wheat, tobacco, milk, eggs, to
fellow Americans over 200
years. Up to about 1960 farm
work kept us busy. If an Amish
boy got one Friday night off per
month he was lucky. Maybe a
week or so off after harvest was
a rare happening. For 12 hours a
day, 6 days a week farm work
AUCTION
Real Estate sells at 12:12.
Owner: The Estate of Charles & Adeltha Pratt
Awesome the lake view,
kept our noses to the grindstone
and kept us out of most mis
chief.
And there was growth from
1945 to 1970. Our Lancaster
County Amish population dou
bled and again from 1970 to
1995. Today there are 23,000
Amish in our Lancaster set
tlement, and 2,200 youth in 25
different groups. Farms got
scarce, though 20 percent
moved to other settlements, it
was hard for fathers to buy
farms for all their sons, thus the
shop area began. By 1980 25 oer
cent of us were in manufactur
ing and construction. Today
over 50 percent don’t work in ag
riculture...
...thus for better or worse
there was much more contact
with the outside, and this all
takes transportation, thus lots of
outsiders have a taxi or trucking
business catering to us Amish,
probably over 150 in the county,
hauling our goods, taxiing folks
to yonder settlements, again
making outside contacts easier.
Ga ruffein driver uff.
“Go call a driver.”
;hed
While Amish shops need to
have their employees trucked in
and out, and many use their
horse and buggy, construction
crews need drivers, probably
more so than a hammer, many a
carpenter will hire almost a
total stranger. This may or may
William Pratt, Executor
Real Estate Auction
50 Acre Farm with Rental Income
Thurs., Aug. 27,1998 at 12:00 Noon
99 Kinseyville Road, Nottingham, PA
Southern Lancaster County
Directions: Rt. 1 to Rt. 272 North, left on Little Britain. Follow to
Jubilee: make left to Kinsey ville, keep left; follow to farm on right.
Watch for signs.
Property Consists of:
#1 Residence: Ranch style home w/livmg rm. dining area, 3 BR 1
bath kitchen w/lots of cabinet space, full basement w/garage plus a 2
car oversize garage Oil hot water heat approx 1470 sq ft Also 2-car,
2 story bam type garage 2 pole bams (1) 40'x26' (1) 38 x2l Also four
mobile home rental pads w/septic and other small bldgs
#2 Residence: Two story stone farmhouse w/kitchen, living rm 3 BR,
2 baths, upper summer room 3 car garage, stfx4o bam and 4 ponds
Property is bordered by Kmscyville Rd & Cedar Hill Rd
Open House Inspection Dates
Thurs,, July 23,5-7 PM; Sat, July 25,2-4 PM; Hies., July 28,5-7 PM
Or Shown By Appointment
ADC Map Location (67-C-7)
Terms 10% Deposit Sale Day Balance Due Within 60 Days at Settlement
Property Will Be Sold As One Entirety
sale for-. Harvey O. Sheetz Estate
Auctioneer
Larry Whyte
Frank C. Chester, Esquire
Service
MtMA-L rw7l7 78t-#m
717-786-7666
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not work the best and some
times be a contact with the drug
problem.
Hot des youst afunga?
“Did this just start?”
No, it surfaced in the set
tlement perhaps 25 years back,
during the hippie era. One
Honey Brook family was involv
ed. It appears as our outside con
tact increased, one heard more
about drug use; by 1985 more
was heard about it. Probably
25-40 involved. Only in the last 7
years it seemed to intensify, and
it appears there were Amish
dealers for 2-4 years. Quite
alarming really.
Sin see all scblect?
“Are they all bad?”
No, no, not by any means.
Today in our Lancaster set
tlement there are over 2,200
youth in 25 youth groups, proba
bly onlv 10 percent (and these
are the most talked and written
about) travel in the fast lane and
are exposed to drugs. An esti
mate, probably over 3 percent
used drugs, but that’s 3 percent
too many.
Now take note, these 3 boys
had good Christian Amish par
ents, were raised in Amish
homes, attended the Amish
church, but are not members.
Hopefully, someday they will
Fulton Bank, POA
join the faith. How many leave
the faith? Probably Va percent a
year, though during church divi
sions like in 1966 and 1911 and
1878, many families left then
too.
And about these hoedowns
though forbidden, they do hap
pen. Again only about 25 percent
of the youth attend, usually on a
farm where the parents are
away, the word gets out, and the
youth flock together, no con
cerned Amish parents with
proper concern for their chil
dren will permit their offspring
to attend. We love our children.
They are the only things on this
earth we hope to take along to
heaven; through them the
church will grow. Their spirit
and muscle can do a lot of work
but also children are children; if
they don’t obey, parents still
need them, so some of this un-
Amish behavior isn’t wanted but
tolerated like the problems in
our Washington, no American
likes it but we tolerate it.
Vas henna ma do?
“What can we do?”
Pray and pray and more
prayer. Live a good example.
There are lots of concerned
Amish parents out there. Last
October a drug warning paper
was written by several con
(Turn to Pag* A 43)
Sum County Hone Show
Sussex County Fairgrounds
Augusta, N. J.
August 3 - 9th, 1998
$lO,OOO
Draft Horse Division
MONDAY, AUG. 3RD:
Farm Team Competition SI,OOO
Lightweight Team Pulling $1,250
Heavyweight Team Pulling $1,25
THU,AUG. 7&FRI., AUG. 8:
Driving
$3,000 North American Classic
6-Horse Hitch
$1,500 Four-Horse Hitch
$9OO Unicorn Hitch
$l,lOO total on
Single Youth, Lady, Gentleman, Pairs
for information / prize lilt call
Sally Seeger at (908)852-8224
or Sue Gerber at (973)875-2764
FREIGHT STATION AUCTION
39 Wilson Stmt, Middletown, PA 17057
Norman Courney RHII6-L (717) 944-6537
Terms - Cash or Certified Funds
Mon., July 27,1998 @5:30 p.m.
Furniture: Baker Dining Room Suite; Coffee
& End Tables; Oak Cabinet; Open Book
Cases; Drop Leaf Table; Karistan Rugs’Oak
Bed & Washstand: Princess Dresser; Brass
Bed: Book Case With 2 Glass Doors; Sofa;
Rocker; Pine Bar 8' With 4 Stools; Mahog.
Bedroom Suite; File Cabinet; Dehumidifier;
Sears Refrigerator: Kenmore Washer &
Dryen Metal Glider & Porch Chairs; 2 Marble
Top Tables: Singer Sewing Machine: Queen
Anne Dining Room Suite With Two Matching
Break Fronts; Hanging Shelves; Small
Hanging Corner Cupboard; Oak Wall Phone;
Oak Grandfather's Clock Radio; Lamps:
Secretary Desk; Mirrors; Blanket Chest; 4
Pressed Back Oak Chairs.
Decorative Arts: O/C Landscape 33"x43";
O/C Village Scene 20"x26": O/C "Lake Of
29 11 x50 ,, 1 1872; O/C Landscape
35"x21" initialed A.M.; O/C Landscape
H"xl9" Signed John J. Zang; Large Oval
Portrait of Lady; Other Prints And Oils.
Collectibles: Satsuma Vase; Myerstown
Lebanon Co. Coverlet; China Sterfiware; Cut
& Pattern Glass; Kitchenware'Tools: Board
Games; Lincoln Logs; Blocks; Table Cloths &
Napkins; Christmas Decorations: Potter; Fry
Pans; Costume Jewelry: Depression Glass;
Cookie Cutters: Spittoons; Jumbo Pocket
Watch With Advertising Bread sth & Green
St., Polly Wants Cherry Drops; Advertising
Iron Clock With Parrot & Monkey; Ceresota
Adv. Match Holder; T-Zer Top Toy; Sunshine
Biscuit Adv.- Counter Jar; Welch's Howdy
Doody Cook Book; Milk Glass; Walt Disney
Cardboard Storage Box; Wardway Coffee
Grinder Umbrella Cane Sword; Small Bronze
Pan; Cakestand; Harley Saddle Bags;
Recurve Bow; Cross Bow: Indian Rug;
Stoneware; Indian Pottery; Complete WasT
Bowl & Pitcher Set; Postcards; Railroad
Certificate, Stock Bonds & Tickets; Old Papef
Money; Ole
10% Buyer's Premium
717-944-6537