MAZEPPA PA: June 2019

Sunday, June 23, 2019

FISHING LAST WEEKEND

PERCY I GOT OUT BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY LAST WEEKND AND DID WELL FISH WISE AND WILDLIFE. THE DEER MET ME SOON AS I GOT OUT OF THE CAR ALONG WITH THE KILLDEER SITTING ON HER EGGS. A RARE DAY AS I GOT PICS OF AN ORIOLE AND A SANDPIPER ALONG WITH A KINGFISHER. THE BASS WAS 17 INCHES AS WAS THE PICKERAL. THE SUCKER WAS THE FIRST I CAUGHT SINCE I WAS A KID AND I SNAGGED HIM ON A RAPALA. A REAL HEADSHAKER ON THAT ONE. THE BROWNIE WAS 13 INCHES AND A GREAT PIC ALSO OF A REDTAIL HAWK.

WENDELL STAHL

I WAITED TO POST THIS AS I WANTED TO ADD A NICE PHOTO AND JOHN EMAILED ME THAT. SADLY WE LOST A TRUE FRIEND OF MAZEPPA IN WENDELL STAHL. OCTOBER 4 , 1926 - JUNE 7 , 2019. SON OF FRANK AND LULU ( ENGLEHART ) STAHL. IN 1953 HE MARRIED HELEN BAYLOR AND 57 YEARS OF MARRIAGE TILL SHE PASSED IN 2011. SERVED THE ARMY IN THE AIR DEFENSE - EAST PITTSBURGH 1955 - 57. HE AND HIS BROTHER FRANK JR

RAN THE EGG BUSINESS UNTIL 2001. LIFELONG MEMBER OF MAZEPPA UNION CHURCH. SURVIVING ARE SON JOHN AND DAUGHTER MARIANNE LEMON. 6 GRAND CHILDREN AND 11 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. IT TRULY WAS AN HONOR TO KNOW WENDELL AND HAVE HIM AS A NEIGHBOR THE YEARS I LIVED IN MAZEPPA

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

FINALLY !!!

ALMOST FORGOT WHAT BUFFALO CREEK LOOKED LIKE AS I FINALLY GOT BACK TO FISHING. FIRST TIME THIS YEAR I GOT MY LINE WET AND NOT SURE WHEN THE LAST WAS LAST YEAR AFTER ALL THE RAINS. PERCY I CAUGHT 14 AND HAD 3 NICE ONES JUMP OFF INCLUDING A BIG TROUT. THAT ONE FLEW A FOOT OR MORE OUT OF THE WATER...DID A WIGGLE AND THEN THE LURE FLEW RIGHT BACK AT ME. ALSO INCLUDING A PICTURE OF A MERGANSER AS I HAD THE TREAT ONCE AGAIN OF SEEING THE BABIES BEING TAUGHT TO SWIM UNDER WATER.

Sunday, June 2, 2019

CEMETERY

EVERY YEAR BEFORE THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE BINK AND I WALK THE CEMETERY AND A FEW I TOOK PICTURES OF THIS YEAR. WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON THE FIRST ONE AS RON IS A SPECIAL MEMORY I HAVE OF MY CHILDHOOD IN MAZEPPA. RON AURAND NOT ONLY TOOK TIME TO PLAY FOOTBALL WITH ME AND JIMMY BUT SERVED HIS COUNTRY PROUDLY. A FELLA I TRULY ADMIRED. PICTURES FROM THE PARADE CAN BE VIEWED ON FACEBOOK : IMAGES OF MAZEPPA PA

MAZEPPA HISTORY

MANY FOLKS WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT MAZEPPA HAS QUITE A BIT OF HISTORY. THE TOWN GOT IT'S NAME FROM LORD BYRON'S POEM

" MAZEPPA." ORIGINALLY NAMED BOYERTOWN AFTER THE FOUNDER SAMUEL BOYER AND HIS WIFE SARAH. A POST OFFICE WAS STARTED IN 1886 AND A NEW NAME WAS NEEDED AS THERE ALREADY WAS A BOYERTOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA. SCHOOLMASTER CLEMENT EDMUNDS SUGGESTED MAZEPPA AND IT WAS APPROVED. MAZEPPA MILLS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1788 AND STAYED IN OPERATION TILL 1981 WHEN EUGENE JOHNSON RETIRED. MILL WAS STARTED BY MICHAEL RENTSCHELER.

SEVERAL DOCTORS PRACTICED IN TOWN. DR S. ASHER DIEFFENDERFER LIVED ON THE WENDELL STAHL FARM. DR ISSAC FETTEROLF PRACTICED OUT OF THE GARMAN HOME IN THE CNETER OF TOWN.

FRANK STRAUB WAS THE MORTICIAN. A TRADITION WAS WHEN THE PERSON WAS REMOVED FROM THE HOME THE CHURCH BELL WOULD TOLL.

MILTON REMALY WAS A PIANO REPAIRMAN.

JACOB DELCAMP WAS A BLACKSMITH IN TOWN.

FRANK WHITMAN HAD A BLACKSMITH SHOP ON THE OLD JAMES STAHL PROPERTY.

ELMER FEASTER HAD A SADDLE SHOP IN THE LITTLE BUILDING THAT LATER SERVED AS A BARBER SHOP BY FRANK DELCAMP.

AT THE OLD TOM STAHLEY HOME THERE WAS A WAGON BUSINESS OWNED BY THEODORE FANGBONER.

JAMES MATHERS WAS A SHOEMAKER IN TOWN AND ALSO KNOW FOR HIS HORSERADISH.

JOHN BEEBER WAS THE GUNSMITH IN TOWN.

PETER STAHL WAS A CHAIR MAKER.

AT THE ALBERT DELCAMP PROPERTY THERE WAS A CREAMERY . CREAM WAS SENT TO MIFFLINBURG TO BE MADE INTO ICE CREAM AND CHEESE.

IN 1921 FRANK STAHL STARTED AN EGG BUSINESS THAT WAS THEN CONTINUED BY SONS FRANK AND WENDELL.

KEN FISHER HAD AN ELECTRICAL BUSINESS ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.

JULY 22, 1926 A TORNADO HIT THE TOWN AND THE ENTIRE STEEPLE INCLUDING THE BELL WAS TORN FROM THE UNION EMANUEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH.

THERE WERE 2 COVERED BRIDGES IN TOWN. ONE OVER SPRUCE RUN AND THE OTHER NEAR THE BALL FIELDS AT THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.

A FUNNY STORY OF FRANK HEIMBACH COMING HOME ONE NIGHT AND IN THE DARK TRIPPED OVER A COW ON THE BRIDGE. NOT SURE WHO WAS MORE FRIGHTENED.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 A MAJOR FIRE TORE THROUGH TOWN AND 6 HOMES AND SEVERAL BARNS WERE LOST. STARTED IN THE WARREN SHUCK STORE.

ALSO LOOK FOR A PICTURE OF ROBERT MYERS IN THE PHOTO ALBUM. GREW UP IN MAZEPPA AND WENT TO LEWISBURG HIGH. IN DECEMBER OR 1942 HE JOINED THE NAVY AND WAS A NAVY DIVER. EARNED THE VICTORY MEDAL,EUROPEAN AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN MEDAL AND A SPECIAL BRONZE STAR MEDAL.

HELPED TO CLEAR HEAVILY MINED WATERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

MAZEPPA WILL ALWAYS BE HOME.........

DOUG WALTER

MAZEPPA PA

Sunday, June 23, 2019

FISHING LAST WEEKEND

WENDELL STAHL

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

FINALLY !!!

Sunday, June 2, 2019

CEMETERY

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