August 6, 1975
Pioneer
last Saturday night
Fire Company holds a carnival
Mount Joy Sportsmen to hold
a course in hunter education
The Mount Joy Sports-
men’s Association will again
sponsor a hunter education
course on Saturday, August
3.
This one day course will
get underway at 1:00 p.m..
Participants may register
at the clubhouse. No equip-
ment or materials is needed.
Registration starts at
12:30 p.m..
" The Pennsylvania Game
Commission requires that
all persons under 16 years of
age must qualify to pur-
chase their first hunting
licenses by satisfactorily
completing the Hunter Ed-
ucation Course offered by
the club.
This is a fine opportunity
to meet the requirements
needed to obtain that first
hunting license. The course
is free.
Dates for 1976 hunting season
_ Tentative opening dates
for 1976 hunting seasons
have been established by
the Pennsylvania Game
Commission for the conven-
ience of sportsmen who have
to schedule vacations in
advance.
The archery deer season
next year is tentatively
scheduled to open on
Saturday, October 2.
The tentative opening
date for 1976’s early small
game season is Saturday,
October 16, while the
general small game season
is tentatively scheduled to
open next year on Saturday,
October 30.
Tentatively, the 1976 bear
season is scheduled to open
on Monday, November 22.
The antlered deer season
opening date was previously
established by commission
action as the Monday
following Thanksgiving,
November 29, 1976.
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Oliver Overlander and son take an exciting ride at Pioneer Firemen’s Carnival in Marietta
TAKE THE SHILLING!
200 years ago this month the men of Donegal
took up their rifles and marched to Cambridge,
Massachusetts. There they joined a fight that
lasted six years and saw them battling the
British in most of the states of this new nation.
* When Donegal settlers enlisted in the Rangers,
they were given a shilling to bind the contract.
The Donegal Rangers Today
We are forming the Donegal Rangers
again on the occasion of America’s
200th birthday. We see this rifle
company as a very tangible way of
making all Donegal aware of some
of its contributions to the Revolution. : aig :
We'd like you to join with us. We'll be helping to celebrate locally
through living history demonstrations and re-enactments, and the Rangers
will be taking part in activities up and down the East Coast. ( We're marching
from Maine to Quebec this September, just as the Rangers did in 1775.) We
offer you experiences, adventures, a chance to recreate history . .
and a shilling. On the ninth of August we’ll be recruiting in the Sultzbach/
Reinhart House in Marietta (on the Elbow). Oh, yes - and we are still binding
contracts with a shilling.
The Donegal Rangers in
History.
The Donegal Rangers were first
organized during the French &
Indian War to help protect the
Scotch-Irish frontier settlements
of Pennsylvania.
In 1775 they became part of
Matthew Smith’s Rifle
Company of Thompson’s
Battalion. They fought under
Washington at Boston, under
Arnold at Quebec, and saw
service throughout the colonies
for the length of the war.
Being this authentic isn't easy.
Clothing.
Most of the original Rangers were
farmers, and when the call to arms came
from Congress, they didn’t wait
around for uniforms. They were a motley
crew then, and we are bound and
determined to represent them as
faithfully as possible. That's why
the 20th Century Rangers look so
much like the 18th Century Rangers.
Not every group goes as far
as we do to be authentic. For
instance, these fellows are all
dressed in captain’s uniforms.
That's an easy solution, but we
wonder which captain gives
the orders?
You'll notice we come in farmer's tatters,
hunting frocks, and uniforms left
over from the French and Indian War.
Weapons.
In 1775 the men of the American frontier were the finest sharpshooters anywhere. Our
Pennsylvania rifles were extremely accurate and deadly weapons, and Donegal men
knew how to use them. We re particular about the weapons. If you've got a
post-1781 gentleman farmer's rifle with beautiful inlays and fancy brass work . .
leave it in its cradles . . . bring a period hay rake or have one of Donegal’s fine
contemporary blacksmiths forge a pike for you. Or you could help man our
grenade launcher or carry the, , battalion on flag or be a drummer. You do not have to
fire a rifle to join he a
battle.
All Donegal
Rangers carry tomahawks.
Attitude
. What kind of people are we looking for? Well, if you can
imagine yourself living and surviving in Colonial America,
* we're looking for you. We're looking for history buffs and
folks who want an extraordinary way to spend the beginning
of our third century as a nation. We need the people who are
still committed to the ideals of the American Revolution.
A a shia a A
Sound corny? Look around you, and start counting Tories. ES" "—
Recroimiednt Day, Saturday, August 9, 1975
at the
rie DONEGAL RANGERS
4. Sultzbach/Reinhart House
P.O. Box 3, Columbia, Pennsylvania 17512
on the Elbow
in Marietta.