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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-07-09, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETHURSDAY, JULY 9th, 1936 Purity Flour means real economy* farther. makes hr the pans* cokes, ^fbCS h in nourishing ..jfBten, it FUp out of clous biscuits, try ever baked! nd the most and flaky Exeter in 1889 FLOUR BestTor allyour Baking A Casual Visit to London’s Norther­ ly Subur b—* A Picturesque Lo­ cation and Appearances—An Open* handed Englishman—The Trivitt Memorial Church — Biographical Sketch of the Philanthropist—■ —-Other Matters of Interest The following article was written by a representative of the London Free Press describing a visit to Exe­ ter and also the Trivitt Memorial Church in the year 1889. time of his ordination, Bishop Bald­ win made him Incumbent, full faith in his theory, he give it a practical shape, friendship soon sprang up the old Churchwarden and Incumbent and the handsome parish church to be described, which adds nearly $30,000 to the property of the Synod of Huron, is one of outcomes of that friendship. having began to A warm between the new the The Donor’s Daily Life Farm News and the Fhrni and Home Week Several thousands of farmers their wives took advantage of Farm and Home Week at O.A.C. to visit this important institution and inspect its various interesting depart­ ments. A daily feature throughout the week, the parade of college live­ stock, was one of the day’s high­ lights. A number of farm organi­ zations took the occasion to hold their annual meetings and election Of officers there during the week. Hundreds of poultrymen attended meetings of the Record of Perform­ ance Association and Ontario Poul­ try Federation. Altogether it was the most successful Farm and Horae Week in the history of the O.A.C. and it demonstrates that farmers are coming to have a new apprecia­ tion of the value of scientific agri­ culture. Salt in Hay Curing One tenth of the value of the an­ nual .hay crop in Canada is lost, due to fire and spoilage caused by heat­ ing, according to an estimate made by W. J. Scott, Fire Marshall for On­ tario, recently. Mr. Scott points out that this loss is not entirely the result of actual fires. Much of it is accounted for by heating that does not reach the ignition point but does destroy the food value, owing to fermentation and bacterial action in the presence ' ' ' ' ' ~ * of- of moistuxe. The early stages heating in hgy caused largely by moulds and bacteria that occur na­ turally in hay. If this is not check­ ed the temperature may rise to a point ■where the chemical reactions are started and more .heat is produc­ ed, with ultimate ingition. As a preventive measure, Mr. Scott advocates the use of salt, which •has long been recognized as a pre­ servative and a retardment of fer­ mentation.*.. If used intelligently it will slow down the heating action in hay and prevent dangerous tem­ peratures. The amount of salt re­ commended is up to 26 to 3 0 pounds per ton of hay. Salt, he points out, will serve not only as a preventative of heating and spoilage but also will increase the food value to livestock. Roguing’ of Fields The farmer who is saving clov­ er or timothy fields for seed would he well advised to make a thorough inspection of the area to be kept for this purpose and to rogue or pull out any weeds which might be present, particularly weeds, the seeds of which, are difficult to remove from clovers and timothy seed. When one considers the fact that an average plant of -Ox-eye Daisy may produce 5,000 to 8,000 seeds, Bladder'Cam­ pion 10 to 20,000 seeds, Curled Deck 17,000, Ribgrass 12,000, Canadian Thistle, 3,500 and False Flax 40,- 000 seeds, we can readily under­ stand how the presence of a very few of these weeds would be sufficient to put the seeds into a rejected grade. Every seed destroyed means thou­ sands of seed destroyed. Hand pull­ ing of weeds is one* job in which every member of the family can help including school children. Plan1 on going through your fields regularly. It is important that all weeds be destroyed immediately after picking as there is .a possibility of them be­ ing so far advanced that seeds will mature if they are thrown by the fence or left lying in the. fields. Roguing will greatly increase the value of the resulting seed crop and may mean all the" difference be­ tween profit and loss. A reasonably clean seed crop will be easier to market, the costs of cleaning to the grower will be greatly lesened and he* will be assured of top grades and better prices. Include roguing on your farm program, a job which must be done. Time and money can be profitably spent at this work. Sharp Practices in Feed Sales Purchasers should beware of feed sold by the bag with no stipulation as to weight. Some unscrupulous feed dealers have sought to capital­ ize the one hundred-pound bag unit of feed is so commonly employed that it is taken for granted. Even with fixed weights, the volume of bulk feeds varies according to the nature of the material or the tight­ ness of packing, and so a lack of uniformity in bags does not picion. It is dealers guard using bags of less than the usual width, appearance of a full weight pack­ age while actually it is a few pounds under The in the ceives, hundred pounds or per ton which he pays. He is also misled in his ration balancing plans, for he commonly purchases concentrates to supple­ ment and balance farm grown feeds. Even should he detect the shortages he could probably get no redress for the vendor guilty of such prac­ tices sells “by the bag” rather than by rveight and thus portects himself against charges of misrepresenta­ tion. Farmers could be well, advised, therefore, to purchase feed on a weight-basis rather than a bag-bas­ is, and also to check selers’ 'weights whenever opportunity permits. By so doing, they would not only pro­ tect themselves against the prac­ tices described, but would serve the interests of .honorable manufactur­ ers and dealers whose bag-lot prices appear out of line when they must offer a one hundred pound .bag of feed in competition -with, say a nin- ty-three pound bag. the size of packed ordinarily arouse sus- alleged that some against suspicion by the usual height, but ., giving the weight. farmer is victimized not only quantity of feed which he re­ but likewise in the price per crops June good apples are reported to be the poorest prospects. The the apple varieties are just all the fruits are below the for the rest of the Province, three the average index, are rated at 2.4. The de- Fruit Crop Report Ontario’s commercial fruit were rated at only average on 15. Early spring hopes for orchard yields were sharply revised by the Department report in June. Varying temperature conditions and frost in the late spring .have damag­ ed the fruit prospects. ' Ontario’s 193i6 yields of apples, sour cherries, pears, plums, peaches, grapes and strawberries are now generally below average in tables prepared by <S. H. H. .Symons, Agri­ cultural Department Statistician. Only bright spots in the fruit fore­ casts are sweet cherries and rasp­ berries. Show showing bulk of a little below the average mark, and Spy and Stark get the best ratings. Bartlett and Keifer pears are re­ ported in below-average conditions, especially in Eastern Ontario, where almost figures With grapes partipent estimates the grape crop was reduced about 30 per cent, by the late frosts and hail. The sweet cherries and raspberry crops are best in Southern and Wes­ tern Ontario. Throughout the Pro­ vince the Departmental figures re­ port there has been a 10 per cent, increase in raspberry production and a 9 per cent, increase in bearing ac­ reage. The acreage of bearing strawberry plants is well below the figure for a year ago. iFrost and cut worms have been working havoc in vegetable farms but vegetable prospects are better than fruit prospects. Only cauliflow­ ers is rated in a below average con­ dition. Asparagus, beans, cabbage, carrots, celery, .corn, lettuce, onions, peas, potatoes, spinach and early tomatoes are1 rated average or above average. Mr. Trivitt lives in a very way. by careful investment and simple habits, he is enabled to indulge his benevolent ideas in whatever way he considers his duty holding all things as the Stewart of God. A scholarly man and well read theologian, he holds decided opinions on both pol­ itics and religion. An aviary filled with rare birds shows his taste for* ornithology, and an extensive greenhouse enables him to keep his friends well supplied with flowers. So much for the donor, and now for a quiet Inheriting an ample fortune, semi-urban full ar- is per­ in Can­ dialect is, Its up Description of the Church which has cost him so much money, It is a fine specimen of early Eng­ lish architecture, built from plans furnished by and under the super­ vision of Peters, Jones & McBride, ■of London. It has a square tower 82 feet high, surmounted by four pinnacles of Ohio sandstone and a flagstaff. The church measures one hundred and sixteen feet in length nave sixty feet, transepts seventy feet long and thirty-four wide. The chancel rises three steps above floor of nave with organ loft and vestry door in the north. The northern entrance of church is through a 'handsome open, porch through the opened doors, the effect of archway and segment of roof, is very strik­ ing. All copings, buttress caps, window sills and blabel moulds over ■windows, are a cut sandstone. Gar­ goyles and bosses are handsomely carved, and the impression received at first glance is that of a substan­ tial and beautiful church, worthy of any city on the continent. The brown slate roof is relieved at the sky line of nave, transepts, and chancel, by a fretwork of red cresting, battle- mented. The main entrance is in the estern side of the tower- through an arched doorway of sandstone, of lofty height and beautifully mould­ ed. This arch is supported on red granite pillars, with carved capitals resting on moulded bases and sand­ stone granite steps. The whole church is open to the streets which surround it, and wide sidewalks lead to three entrances. The tower is as­ cended by means of a turret winding stair to the ringing chamber, and then by flights t.o the clock chamber, bell chamber, and then two others to the roof, from which the whole town lying with its streets, buildings and gardens can be seen1, as well as parts of the townships of Usborne, Stephen and Hay, for miles along the London and Goderich road. Inside the church standing in the southern swinging doors and looking towards the chan­ cel, the eye rests upon the mullioned roof and the lofty aroh formed by the diagonal trusses they carry the tran­ sept roiof from the drop of which the main chandelier hangs. Each truss supporting the massive timbered roof which shows the stained rafters and sheeting, ends in a corbel gathered, Into clusters of two and three where the chancel, nave and transept meet. i The roof of the chancel is paneled in squares, and painted blue with gilt stars, forming a groined arch over the organ loft. The church is light­ ed with gasoline, the chandeliers falling from the drop in each truss, and rising ini the chancel and tower into six lights each over the altar railing, chancel arch, and entrance to to’wer and north and porch. The furnaces, with cioal cellars and gas machines, are all in the crypt, where the temporary vestry also is placed, under the origan loft. Perhaps the most beautiful feature of all is the stained glass windows. The east win­ dow contains three large features in its panels, and groups of smaller ones above, where the windows to trefoils and quatrefoils, tre figure is the Saviour, panel David, and the left The contractor for. all glass was Mc­ Causland & gon, of Toronto. The cir­ cular windows in each transept bear ecclesiastical designs, surrounded with richly colored glass. The glass in the panels under each circle is on a much paler tint, with a pattern that runs all around the church. In the four quarefoils of the transepts are the emblems .-of the Evangelists. The clerestory windows are used for ven­ tilating the roof, as also are the pan­ els of three lights in each igable. The large St. Catherines wheel in the west window has for a centre piece the pelican feed his young. In the centre panel under it is the parish coat of arms, crest, an eagle rising, shield argent in chevron purple, with three trevets sable; nnotto “Salvus In Igne.” The lancet and circular win­ dows in tower and turret stairway are also all of stained glass. Furni­ ture is from the factory of the Ben- net Mfg. Co., London. Seats, pulpit, prayer desks, choir stools, lecture and communiion table, are all of rod oak, well filled oil finish. The Tere­ dos is of paneled oak, with pillars, gothic tops, and quatrefoil orna­ ments in keeping with waincots in nave and chancel. The organ was* built by Wadsworth, of Montreal, .ac­ cording to specifications necessary for capacity of the church. It is play­ ed at present by Mr. H. Puddicombe, a promising young pupil of Mr. Sippi organist of st. Paul’s Cathedral in London. At the opening services on December 23rd, it is estimated that fully 3,000 people were present and heard the Bishop of Huron preach. The congregation is still growing, and the future of the parish must be a .hopeful one to the Rector .and congregation. 4 Crediton Public School PROMOTION EXAMINATIONS break in- The cen­ time right St. John. Room I Jr, II to Sr. II—Alvin Flynn 86; Doris Sims 85; Edward Schenk 79; Myrtle Haist 77. IstA to Jr. II— Irene Finkbeiner 88; Kenneth Taylor 88; Norma Fah- rner 818; Elaine Fahrner 86; Eliza­ beth Sweitzer 86; Aubrey Gaiser 70. IstB to Jr. II—Paul .Schenk 86; Grant Rioeszler 78;-Pauline Faist 74 Vera Sims 70; Clara Sims 7 0. Pr.A to 1st Book—Edith Hill 91; Lloyd Roeszler S4. Pr.B. to 1st Book—Marven Wein 75; Frederick Waghorn 67. Ella Morlock, teacher Room H Sr. Ill to Jr. IV—/Harold Brown 91; Frederick Morlock 8<5; Evelyn. Waghorn 84; Gladys Schenk 72; Helen Schenk 67; Alan Hill 66. Jr. Ill to Sr. Ill—Fred Sims 75; Carman Roeszler 75; Calvin Fahr- ner 70; Helen Bullock 70; Bernice Finkbeiner 67; Phyllis Hill 66. Sr. II to Jr. Ill—Wilmar Wein. 7 8 Helen Haist 74; Doris Wuerth 73; Frederick Haist 73; Alvin Sims 73; Lawrence Waghorn. 69; Orland Gaiser 69. Gertrude Amos, teacher Room III Jr. IV to fir. IV—Shirley Fahrner 89; Ruth England 88; Laura Wood- all 81; Eugene Finkbeiner ma MacPherson 68; Jack Bernice Haist 60. A'ddileen Gaiser, 81; Thel- En gland. It was built at Thomas Trivitt, Esq., name it bears. The furnished the site, and all things neces- Alotted Life.” Away early times, when Eng- was taking worldwide Plantagenet and Lan- teacher Ml i-A-<<<•» never let nelmess A Free Press representative paid Exeter a casual visit the other day. It is situated about thirty miles north of London on the L.H. & B. railway and lies on a level plain in the County of Huron in the midst of one of the finest agricultural dis­ tricts of Ontario. As one approach­ es Exeter on the railway, he is struck by the seeming populous and solid appearance of the place. The 'rail­ way runs parallel with the main street, distant about a quarter of a mile. The station is placed in an unhandy spot. It is fax* from the leading hotels and places of busi­ ness, accoomodating neither farmer nor merchant. But once in the main street, and you see signs of evident prosperity, comfort and en­ terprise. Here and there are piles of brick and lumber, marking the places where new buildings will soon be in course of erection, Although fully 2,000 in population, Exeter is satisfied to call itself a village, and go on in its steady way, while places of half its population and about a quarter of its -wealth call themselves towns and flourish in grandeur with a mayor and ray of councillors. Exeter haps the most English place ada. One hears the broad of Devonshire and Cornwall, from the laborers heaping up the corpor­ ation mud that has been gathering all winter, and it greets you from the merchants behind his counter, and the butcher at his stall. It stares at you from the business sings where such names as Smalla- combe, Bawden, Hamlin, Brima- combe, .Snell and Trevethick are do­ ing their share to perpetuate the memory of old Exeter, Barnstable, Moulton, North and South, Crediton, Portsmouth and Truro. * The main attraction of Exeter certainly its Episcopal church, massive tower and gables loom picturesquely from the railway, and are a central point for miles from north, south, east and west. This Church is like no other in Canada, for many -reasons, the expense of whose family congregation seating, organ sary for the service of the Church of England. A fine deep-toned bell sounds from the tower for each ser­ vice and negotiations are onw going on for the purchase of a peal of ten bells ^t no distant date. The last feature is all that is needed to make the church one of the finest in the Dominion. The donor of it, Mr. Trivitt, is well worthy of a biogra­ phy. Almost any morning a medium­ sized, erect, English-looking figure may be seen going to the post office, with the light, springing step of a practiced walker, and the youngest child or oldest man knows that is Mr. Trivitt. A stranger at a hasty glance might say that he was forty- five, or possible ten years older, but in reality he has seen half a dozen over the three-score years and ten, of “Man’s back in the lish history fame, when castrian Kings were either killing Frenchmen, or cutting each other’s followers to pieces, and stirring ec­ clesiastics declaring that the Eng­ lish Church should be as Magna Charta pronounced it was free from Pope and King; then Trivitts (as Frassart’s Chronicles tell us) were mailclad soldiers and commanders in chief of the army in France; jurists, and Lord Chancellors of England, or learned priests writing history in some quiet convent, the quaint re­ cords of which are preserved to the present day. But that was long ago and for many centuries they have been quiet country gentlemen of Somersetshire, and, like their Exeter decendant, retain of worldly great­ ness only ample fortunes and the family coat of arms, now painted in the centre panel of the west window of the Trivitt Memorial Church, Ex­ eter. The Parish of Exeter has, for a Canadian one, quite a long history that is some thirty years in length. It numbers among its church ward­ ens, T. Trivittou^t- Hyndman, Isaac Carling, ex^M^P.’ for .South Huron; Wm, Ca Joseph Case, Thos, Fit- bl and Thos. Gidley, B. S. t B. V. Elliott, John Spack- hd -ik A. C. Denovan, names known*in the county of Huron. Trivitt held office the longest of one church warden. The pre­ sent Rector, Rev. S. F. Robinson, an under-graduate of the unfortun­ ate Western University is one of the Huron College students ordained by the Bishop of Huron in 1885. He holds with a class more numerous among the laity of the Diocese of Huron peojple shown Is, to the history of the church in the Do- (minion. Exeter being vacant at the g JlM Thomp e/ get him <loj away for the si gap between we Twice a week, at T'Set hour, he has a reassuring and cheering chat with wife and youngsters- There’s nothing like Long Distance to take the edge off separation. 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