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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
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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
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A page from Helen Pennell’s photo album of her ‘children’