Al a i a A a A i 1 hu I a Dd SR HN Sd A I A Ye a a a Gilbert Ide, 67, sat in the Early American chair in the attractive family room of the Ide homgstead located near Idetown ter. ‘Mr. Ide’s trim condition, lively face, and active life belie his 67 years. He spoke to the and the important part they have played in the history of (named after his father’s great-great grand- father, Nehemiah Ide) and sur- rounding area. Five genera- tions of Ides have lived on the Browns came to Lehman and the Ides to Idetown. “ Nehemiah Ide died at the age of 77 and his wife Mary lived until afteigger 97th birthday. They are buvied in the old burial ground at Idetown and Nehemiah was the first to be buried there. » ~The site where Gilbert Ide now lives is part of the farm that ran from the cemetery to the road which leads into the Jewish Recreation Center. Born in Loyalville, Gilbert has lived at his present address for the past 29 years. ~He lived in Loyalville until he married th@former Pearl Baer in 1930 and moved to Kingston to be near his work. However, the Ides’ stay in Kingston was for only a short time for the ‘city’ was too confining and they made the move to their present home. “Pearl was born in Dallas, but when she was a year old her family moved to Loyalville where she was raised and where she attended school. It was in school that she met Gilbert. ‘The Ides continue to be active members of the Loyalville Methodist Church where they were the first couple to be mar- ried, and Mr. Ide has a beauti- fully engraved plaque given to him to commemorate 35 years of service as superintendent of the Sunday school. For the past five years h@gyhas taught the adult class of“*ne church. Gilbert Ide worked in heavy construction for 46 years, 35 of them with Sordoni Construction Co. He has operated large shovels, baak hoes, bull-dozers, and front- loaders. ‘When he started in construc- tion work he had never seen a bull-dozer and the front-end loaders had not yet been in- vented. Classes or schools teaching large machine opera- tion were unheard of, and Gil- bert Ide learned by ‘doing.’ The first day on the job, a boss showed him what levers or han- dles to pull and after that he was on his own. "During the first years he worked night shift and earned about 40 cents an hour which buying power in those years and with wages of 40 cents an hour he was able to buy a new car and save money as well. ~ Most of the jobs he worked on were out offfown, but he did do some work Weally including re- moval of the old Forty Fort culm bank—a project that took four years. The culm was re- moved, then run through the breaker and sold to the public. He also helped remove the old Harry E. culm bank on the back road. There was one time that he narrowly escaped serious in- jury when 200 carloads of culm from the bank started to slide. Gilbert was able to throw the switch on the shovel, get out and run. It was fortunate for him that he did for the shovel was covered. While working on the Forty Fort project, Lowell Thomas visited the operation, talked and visited with the men, and later recounted it on his newscast. Gilbert Ide also worked on the construction of the original buildings at College Misericor- dia and the Commonwealth Telephone Company’s building in Dallas. He also did the grading for the sub-station in Idetown. During World War II he work- ed in Berwick for five years. He has been a member of Operators Union Local 542 for 35 years and on Dec. 3 of this year, he was presented with a gold membership card and a wrist watch and was made a paid-in- full lifetime member, an honor received only when one has held membership for 35 years’ or more. Gilbert Ide’s father, Silas, was a farmer who was born and raised in Loyalville. Interested in his family’s ancestry, he spent many weeks and months tracing his family and the result is a book he had published on the Pennsylvania Branch of the Ide Family which runs from their English ancestors who came to New England from England in the early 1600’s to the year 1940. Mr. and Mrs. Ide are active church workers as are their four children and six grand- children. This is evidenced by the fact thatthe 15 members of the family among them hold more than 100 perfect at- tendance pins. Their son, David, just received his 27th year attendance pin and their nine year old grandson his ninth pin. With the exception” of their daughter Rita, who is a student at Johnson Bible School, Knox- ville, Tenn., their children are married and live in the area. Mildred Ide Thomas resides at Harveys Lake; Lois Ide Hughes at Lehman; and David, in Ide- town, a stone’s throw from his parents. Rita will be home for the holi- days and as usual, the entire family will be together. The grandchildren spend a great deal of time on the Ides’ 24-acre residence and on the grounds behind their neat white farmhouse is their youngest daughter’s playhouse (used for storage in the winter) where the grandchildren and their friends play in the summer. Mr. Ide told the Post that he has retired but that he has not “quit.” He intends to remain active as long as he can and cul- tivates a large garden as well as maintaining his 24 acres year- round. In his barn he has all the equipment necessary to help him in his monumental task of caring for his large property, equipment that is in A-1 condi- tion for he repairs and over- hauls it himself. He also does the maintenance work at the Loyalville Metho- dist Church and is a member of the Lehman Taxpayers Asso- ciation. Gardening and raising flowers are his favorite past- times and during this past year he had a beautiful crop of to- matoes during a season when most people had difficulty raising them successfully. : At one time he had 63 peony bushes but has given most of those away and today raises a variety of blossoms including a number of beautiful roses. He also is a musician and derives much pleasure from playing the accordian. He and Mrs. Ide do some traveling, especially through the New England States and the West but he says the best part of traveling is getting back home. Recently ‘they toured Tennessee, Arkan- sas, Missouri and Ohio. He traveled so extensively while doing construction work that he is now ready to settle down and enjoy his home and family. Mr. Ide used to spend leisure hours flying but follow- ing a cataract operation found it necessary to give it up. Pearl Ide is also an active person, doing many things in her home as well as holding a number of positions at church. She is secretary of the Sunday school, secretary of the admin- istrative board, and cradle roll superintendent. The small con- gregation makes it necessary to hold more than one office. The residence is on the ori- ginal site of the Ides’ birthplace, but the home is built farther back than the first one. The pre- sent home was built in 1923 by Atwell Ide, a cousin of Gilbert's, and all of the partitions are made from 2x12 planks of the original farmhouse. Asked if he hunted, Mr. Ide told the Post that he did some hunting when he was younger but was never too enthused about it and since with the de- velopment of much of the land around his home, there is no longer place for it. Mr. Ide re- lated an interesting incident about his grandfather when he was a young man. When the farm was much larger and hea- vily wooded, his grandfather treed a large bear in a field be-. hind the house. His younger sister was with him and he had her stand at the foot of the tree and rub a large stick back and forth across the trunk while he ran to the house for his gun and came back to shoot it. The bear was still there because the noise of the stick kept ihe bear up in the tree. Gilbert and Pearl Ide are not ‘joiners.’ © they are interested in enjoying their home, ‘their children and their grandchild- ren. For CRT Pid 9. 9”. STOP IN FOR FREE DEMONSTRATION $139. by General Radio 2 Photo by James Kezemchak 14, 1972 Project Outreach, a unique, first-of-its-kind ~~ intervention- prevention program of mental health, is sponsoring a two-day In-Service Training Seminar at the Treadway Inn Dec. 20-21, Project Director Edward F. Heffron announced today. The purpose of the seminar is to give in-depth training in group dynamics to Outreach’s para-professional staff of 50 Human Service-Mental Health workers. the Center of Crisis Intervention Research, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Florida, will be in Wilkes- Barre to conduct the seminar. Training Co-ordinator for the Couples Club Plans Supper annual Christmas party Dec. 16 at 6:30 p.m. in the church social rooms. There will be a covered dish supper and members and couples are asked to bring their place settings and a cover- ed dish. Couples of all ages are invited to attend. Mrs. Russell Thomas, chair- man, is assisted by N. E. Nelson, Mrs. John Blase and Mrs. Donald Smith. Kenneth Young is in charge of the pro- gram. Persons planning to attend are asked to call any of the com- mittee for reservations. I ————————— RE —— There is a backlog of mail in some of the local post offices. Don’t take a chance on your news being left out of the paper. Send it in early or drop it off at the office. is Dr. Richard K. executive adminis- trator . of Community Crisis Corner, Inc., a suicide and crisis intervention service in Gainesville, Fla. Dr. McGee is also a nationally known author and lecturer on psychology and program McGee, preventive mental health programs. Dr. William C. Mottola, Departments of Psychology and Clinical Psychology, and Dr. James Lister, Department of Counselor Education, Univer- sity of Florida, will discuss therapy and counseling methods with the group. Completing the instructoral staff from the Center of Crisis Intervention Research are Karl Wilson and Douglas Freeman, doctoral candidates at the University of Florida. Dr. Leonard Morgan, director of staff development, and Dr. Wayne C. Richard, associate director, Dede Wallace Mental Health Center, Nashville, Tenn., will also speak at the seminar. They are both affil- iated with the National Training Laboratories, located through- out the United States and are trainers in encounter group theory. Project Outreach was formed in response to the Agnes disaster, ~however, anyone living in Luzerne and Wyoming Counties can request a visit from one of the Outreach counselors who can help with a wide range of problems such as alcoholism, anxiety, tension due to altered living conditions, depression, or feelings of loneliness and isolation. as ; Ee 5 2 ; Accessories IAS RRR AL'S EEE <i EE EE i EE EE CEE A EE EE CEE Ee EE A << << — ® nh © | an by Charlot Denmon 675-0419 David Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Spencer, RD 5, Shavertown, recently com- pleted his boot training at Great Lakes, Ill., Naval Training Station and has received his port assignment. Seaman Spencer graduated from West Side Area Vocational-Technical School. District Magistrate Fred Anderson’ has returned to his home on Pioneer Avenue. Shavertown after his recent stay in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital as a surgical patient. His friends and neighbors wish him a speedy recovery. The Kingston Township ambulance crew for this week consists of the following: Capt. Marv Dymond, Paul Dymond, Joe Brennan, Pete Luhrs, Shel Williams, Wayne Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Herritt have moved into their new home in Carverton. A film was shown Sunday to the entire children’s division of the Shavertown United Methodist Church School in the church social rooms. “Christmas Around the World” shows families in various parts of the world and how they celebrate Christmas. Louise Ohlman, guest of the division, played carols on the autoharp which was given as a memorial to Oliver Rome and in honor of his grandchildren, Linda, Eric, and Craig Rome, by his wife; Mrs. Oliver Rome. The Rev. guest pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Shavertown, last Sunday morning. The Rev. David H. Bremer, chaplain, Muhlenberg College, will conduct both services next Sunday. Couples Club of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will hold a progressive dinner New Year's Eve. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Harry Davenport, Shavertown. Christmas Eve services at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will be held as follows: Children’s service at 7:30 p.m. Children will be dismissed to attend Jesus’ Birthday Party while adults receive Communion served by the Rev. Durrell J. Seip. A Holy communion ser- vice will be led by the Rev. John M. Brndjar, administrator of Lutheran Welfare Service at the Hazleton Home. x New members will be welcomed into membership of Shavertown United Methodist Church." Dec. 17.:0/A'" get: acquainted meeting will be held in the Chapel room Dec. 14 at 7:45 p.m. Members of the MYF groups of Shavertown United Methodist Church attended a candlelight communion celebration at Forty Fort United Methodist Church last Sunday evening. 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