HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-02-18, Page 4Another
customer
The customer is Russ Snell of South End Service, in to get building materials, another
example that the Co-op is not a closed shop, but serves the whole community. The Co-op
store, just two Tears old, carries a complete line of hardware, building tools and farm
supplies.
The DIVERSEY Corporation (Canada) Ltd. CLARKSON, ONTARIO Branches at: Calgary, Montreal, St. John's, Winnipeg Congratulations to Exeter District Co-Op Manufacturers of
CLEANING & SANITIZING
CHEMICALS
for the dairy farmer
Distributors of
CARBOLA
Our very
best wishes
to a very
important
business
EXETER DISTRICT
CO-OPERATIVE
Sta _Rite
Pumps
(CANADA) LTD.
Ajax, Ontario
SEE THE NEW EXETER DISTRICT CO-OPERATIVE Your headquarters for Poultry and Animal
Health Products
HOWARD CHEMICAL
CO. LTD.
Orangeville, Ontario
Exeter
District
Complete Electrical
Installations
W. MacDONALD ELECTRIC
Co., Ltd.
GODERICH CLINTON
524-7851 482-7702
From the
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
C. A. McDowell
Limited
Exeter 235-0833 Centralia 228-6961
Best Wishes
for further progress
Super Structure • Ready Mix Cement
Our
Congratulations
Exeter District
Co-Operative
Co-operation
is essential
Ross Francis
R.R.1 Kirkton 229-6294
Your CO-OPERATORS
INSURANCE
ASSOCIATION Agent
Milverton Millwrights Ltd.
MILLWRIGHTING CONTRACTORS
Milverton Ontario
It was our pleasure to install
and insulate the equipment
for the New Mill. We built
the bins, installed the
machinery and the spouting
complete to finish the job
Congratulations
Exeter
District
Exeter
District
See You
at your
Co-op services now comprehensive
Store now
2 years old
The re-opening of the Co-
op's mill is just two weeks
shy of the second anniver-
sary of the Co-op's retail
store. The official opening
was March 8, 1963.
The store has speeded the
growth of the Co-operative's
business, bringing in more
and more farmers into par-
ticipation. It completes the
Co-op's activities to give it
a well rounded program of
complete services for the
farmer.
The store is an 30 x 40
annex to the colored metal
warehouse erected by the
Co-operative the year be-
fore.
The store carries a full
line of merchandise, from
the work clothes, to tools,
to appliances for the home.
Many of the products carry
the Co-op brand label.
However, the Co-op store
is not just for the farmer.
Anyone's trade is welcome.
Prices are competitive and
services are complete. The
store has one of the largest
hardware stocks in the dis-
trict.
Some of the products town
people might take an interest
in include the 'Co-op's own
brand, Viscount, freezers,
refrigerators, stoves and
washing machines, the Co-op
line of household paints, step
ladders, sump pumps, rub-
ber boots, carpentry tools,
snow shovels, and even the
household broom.
The store was established
so that the farmer might
make almost all of his pur-
chases within the Co-opera-
tive framework and thus fur-
ther reduce his costs.
The Exeter District Co-op may have started out being principally afeed mill. But in recent years it has branched out into much more than just that. Just look at the many ser-vices and products the Co-op has to offer now: Your Co-op maintains a full time field representa-tive to make on-the-farm surveys for feeding pro- grams. This insures that feeding, now becoming more and more a scientific matter, is tailored to the individual needs of the farmer and his stock. The program was begun when it was found that farm-ers had a hard time keeping up with the technological changes and the ever widen-ing range of feeds available. Much the same program is available for fertilizer. Your Co-op will take soil tests on your farm and then recom-mend the best fertilizer pro-gram for the crop youintend to plant. With the institution of a new formula for the Co-op's Farm Gasoline, you'll be seeing the tank truck around the countryside much more often this summer. Special addatives have been formu- — Continued from front page popular earlier. Most of them have now given way to the rapidly-growing co-op-
erative movement.
During the sum mer of
1944, members of this club,
along with other farmers in
the district, decided to form
the co-operative. The chart-
er, issued by the Ontario
government in September of
the same year, contains the
names of William Oestrich-
er, first president; Edward
G. Kraft, Edward Chambers,
the late Percy Passmore
(who was manager of the
Thames Road Club and the
first manager of the Co-op),
John L. Quinlivan, C e cil
Rowe and R. B. Williams.
Presidents since that time
have been Clarence Down,
Edgar Montieth, Wilfrid
Shapton, Howard Johns, Ed-
ward Hendrick, Albert Keys,
Harold Fahner, Ralph We-
ber, Lloyd Morgan, Theron
Creery, and the present in-
cumbent, Alvin Finkbeiner.
There have been only four
secretaries since the co-
op's formation, John Quin-
livan was the first, followed
by George Taylor; Ken Hern
(the present manager) and
now Ray Morlock.
The co-op started its op-
eration in the former opera
house recently razed for a
supermarket expansion.
lated to give surer, better and cheaper operation for the farmer. Your Co-op also serves the farm with home heating fuels bearing the Co-op la-bel. The service included a free furnace clean -out which every housewife more than welcomes. Bagged and bulk handling of Co-op mixed fertilizers is offered with applications of liquid nitrogens as well. Feeds were supplied through the Seaforth Co-op. in 1945, a mill was erected beside the CNR station and awarehouse
was added in 1946.
The downtown store, pur-
chased in 1950 from Glen
McKnight, was rented for a
number of years and then
sold to McKerlie Automo-
tive.
One unique feature about
the co-op is that each of its
members receives one vote
— regardless of amount of
investment—in decisions
made at annual and other
general meetings. This dif-
fers from private business in
which owners cast ballots
according to the number of
shares they possess.
Another feature of the co-
op is the restriction on length
of service by members of
the board of directors. No
member can serve more than
two three-year terms with-
out retiring from the board
for at least one year. This
prevents a "clique" from
gaining control of the or-
ganization.
IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE
to have worked with
Exeter District Co-Operative
Board and Management
in the
Design and Supervision
of the
NEW FEED MILL
The general membership and
customers may well be proud
ortheir new service facilities
Congratulations
Engineering & Construction Dept.
United Co- Operatives of Ontario
WESTON, ONTARIO
Re-opening
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