MARIETTA LIONS CLUB HORSE Snow] POSTPONED To Sunday, May 11 Starts 11 a.m. R Rolph D.8nyder R: D. i Mount Joy, Pa. . SUSQUEHANNA BULLETIN Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin VOL. 75 NO. 18 May 7,1975 Trout season is well un- derway, and fishermen are reeling in rainbow and brown trout from the Done- gal Creek that crosses Route 141 between Marietta and Mount Joy. But . how many fisher- men know how those trout got into Donegal Creek? There is one person most responsible, Ken Depoe who teaches printing at Donegal High School but spends most of his spare time feed- ing and raising trout to stock Donegal Creek and Charles Run. Every morning soon af- ter 6 a.m. Ken feeds thou- sands of immature trout maintained in the nursery of the Donegal Fishing and Conservation Association. The Association goes back to 1968. It had its origin in a fly-tying course Ken gave for Donegal students at the high school. In order to have a good place to Ken Depoe sorting brown and rainbow trout Depoe puts the trout in the Donegal Creek fish, the students with the cooperation of the Fish Commission and local farm- ers, began to clean up the Donegal Creek, building numerous dams and deflec- tors for the water. The dams and deflectors created a faster flow for the water, aerating it and keeping it cool, also getting rid of silt. All this work made the Donegal a nice home for trout. The Association gets six- month old fingerlings from from the State when they are about 2% inches long, and then feeds them for a year until they are about 10 or 11 inches long and ready to be placed in the Donegal or Charles Run. Ken, of course, had been an avid fisherman all his life, but he hasn’t caught a trout to take home for many years. The other weekend he caught seventeen in a (Continued on page 2) MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. Mrs. Harold G. Shireman of Marietta has had nine children, has 38 grandchild- ren and 20 great-grandchild- ren. She says with a twinkle in her eye that she may have some great, great grand- children in a few years. Born Mary Margaret Tome in York County, her family moved to Columbia where she was living when she met Harold G. Shireman who lived on a farm with his parents near Marietta. The Shiremans were mar- ried in 1920. Their golden wedding anniversary was celebrated at a surprise par- ty at Groff’s Farm Res- taurant, attended by all the Shireman’s nine childrenand their families. A photo- graphic album filled with pictures taken by son Bill, commemorates the event and contains a picture of Mrs. Shireman entering the dining room. She was really surprised. Harold Shireman died a couple years ago. Harold and Mary Shire- man first lived with her parents in Columbia, where their daughter Mary Mar- garet (Mrs. George Sager of Marietta) was born. For several years Mr. Shireman farmed while he was also sexton at the Done- gal Presbyterian Church, where he and Mary lived in Ten Cents Mrs. Harold Shireman a Marietta mother Mary Florence Nell, Sylvia Nell, Mary May Shireman, and Ethel Jane Nell - four generations the small brick house near the church. There, John Robert, late of Marietta, and James Richard, who owns the Watering Trough in Mount Joy, were born. Then the Shiremans mov- ed to Maytown where Mr. Shireman worked in Elmer Strickler’s garage. Harold Leroy, now of Centerville, Ethel Jane (Mrs. Edwin Nell of Rivermoor Village), and Bertha Lena (Mrs. James Horst of Florida) were all born in Maytown. Then the Shiremans mov- ed to Florin where Mr. Shireman ran his own gar- age. In Florin Anna Louise (Mrs. Eckman of Lancaster) was born. Finally, the Shiremans moved to Marietta where Mr. Shireman owned his own garage. William Tome, now in Tennessee, and Charles Dale of Marietta, were both born in Marietta. On the day the Bulletin called on Mrs. Shireman, her newest great grandchild also called: Mary Florence Nell (the “Mary” is in honor of Mrs. Shireman), one week old daughter of Robert and Sylvia Nell. Mrs. Bruce L. Pennell a Mount Joy mother Helen Pennell There are a lot of good mothers in the world, thank God, and when the Bulletin asked local residents who they thought of as good mothers, we got a lot of names. But several people men- tioned Mrs. Bruce (Helen) Pennell of Mount Joy. When we went to call on Mrs. Pennell we found oui that she had had only one child, Nancy, Mrs. Paul Brenner of Mount Jov. Mrs. Pennell now has three grand- children: Timmy, Eric, and Greta Brenner. But we found out some- thing else too: that Mrs. Pennell loves and is loved by thousands of children in Mount Joy. A good many of them she got to know as a crossing guard for the Mount Joy Police Force at her station at Bar- bara and Main Streets. Mrs. Pennell has been standing guard at that corner for 18 years, protecting children (continued on page 2) A page from Helen Pennell’s photo album of her ‘children’
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