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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-06-28, Page 66She Gets Better With Age! One hundred years ago, cows were a familiar sight in Exeter. Most families owned one. Each day one of the lads in the communi- ty would go around the streets picking up the cows and take them to, pasture at a central location. At night he would gather them up and drive them home, where a member of the family would set about milking the cow to provide milk for the table and supplying mother with ,milk and cream for her baking and making butter. Then a dairy arrived on the scene and many of the cows soon disappeared from the scene. The dairy relied on area farmers to bring in the milk, where it was processed and delivered (by horse and cart) to local homes. Not only did dairies provide a service in taking over the chore of providing milk, cream and butter, but they soon were making the product better. First it was pasteurized and a few years later it was homogenized. Then came such things as 2% and skim milk. They even provided chocolate milk. Exeter Dairy is proud of its service to the community and salutes Exeter on its 100th birthday. To make the next century as healthy as the past ... for goodness sake drink milk! Early milk delivery featured horse and cart. That's Bob Hatter in the cart and Clarence "King" McDonald holding the horse. The horses knew the routes as well as the driver and required few commands as to when to start or stop. Todays's delivery is speedier with motorized vehicles. Bob Haugh of our staff is shown with his centennial beard on a delivery last week. Exeter Dairy Ltd. Successor to Highland Hill Dairy and Bob Hatter Dairy Rev. Jack Roeda Like many other Protestant denominations, the Christian Reformed Church has a European origin. Our denomination began in Holland and was transplanted to the United States during the 1800's and to Canada during the 1900's especially following World War The Chris tian Ref ormed Church lies within the Reformed and Presbyterian family of Churches. "Presbyterian" indicates that our church is structured ac- cording to the Presbyterian system of church government. "Reformed" refers to the doctrinal position of the church, its loyalty to the Christian truth firmly established in the Protestant Reformation, especially under the leadership of John Calvin, We stand for the basic, historic Christian faith. As already indicated, at the end of World War II ships were arriving in Canada with many Dutch people who had left their crowded bombed out country to build new homes in a new land. When the ships began to dock in 1947, there were only fourteen Christian Reformed churches in Canada. In less than ten years that number had grown to more than a hundred and twenty-five. With the hard, first years now behind them, our churches of Canada are growing and eagerly adapting to the new homeland. Today there are Christian Reformed churches in nine of the eleven provinces with most of them in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Our congregation in Exeter had its birth with the first official council' meeting Nov. 25, 1951 with Mr. Beimers as vice- president. It was approximately a year later that word was received that Rev. Hoytema in Holland would come to serve as pastor of the Exeter and Clinton congregation. The first years saw us wor- shipping in the Presbyterian church and later we were using a The following set of rules, unbelievable as they sound to us today, actually existed in offices back in the 1800's. 1, Office employee will daily sweep the floors, dust the fur- niture, shelves, and show-cases. 2. Each day fill lamps, clean chimneys, and trim wicks. Wash the windows once a week. 3. Each clerk will bring in a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's business. 4. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle the nibs to your individual taste. 5. This office will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m, daily, except the Sabbath, on which it will remain closed. Each employee is expected to spend the Sabbath by attending Church and con- tributing liberally to the cause of the Lord. 6, Men employees will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go regularly to Church. 7. After an employee has spent 13 hours of labor in the office, he should spend the time reading the Bible and other good books while contemplating the Glories and building up of the Kingdom, 8. Every employee should lay. aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years, so that he will not become a burden upon the charity of his betters. small school house in Stephen Township. When it was toocold in the school house these services were held in Sherwood's Workshop in Exeter. Much kindness was extended to the new immigrants. Under- standably, for the first years about half of the worship services were in the Dutch language; today there is a Dutch sermon only once a month, and that primarily for the benefit of our senior members. But we are jumping ahead of our story. On May 13, 1955, after a congregational meeting it was unanimously decided to build a new church. The plans were developed with the help of Mr, D. Sweitzer of Exeter who also supervised the building of the church. On Dec. 16, 1955, the dedication of the Church took place. At the time, our church council consisted of Rev,. Hoytema, Mr. F. Knip, Mr. H. Syrier, Mr. U VanderLaan, Mr, E. Weesjes, Mr, D. Dam and Mr, J. Petersma. Rev. Hoytema continued to serve our congregation till the end of 1956, Following his service we have had as our pastor Rev, Van Eek, Rev. Stienstra and Rev. Scholten. Since 1971 our congregation with 250 members is ministered to by Rev. Roeda. Today, as in the past, our ob- jective can be stated simply: we want to be of service to God and to our community. We are trying to achieve this aim by having two worship services a Sunday, Christian education classes for the youth, various small discussion groups and many informal fellowship and social activities. Understanding the Bible to be concerned with individual salvation and calling Christians to positive works of kindness and good will to those around, it is our hope that as Exeter enters its next one hundred years we will be seen as a group of Christians in the community, ready to serve God and the community in any way possible. 9. Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor in any form, gets shaved at a barber shop, or frequents pool and public halls, will give me good reason to suspect his worth, intentions, integrity, and honesty. 10. The employee who has per- formed his labors faithfully and without fault for a period of five years in my service, and who has been thrifty and attentive to his religious duties, and is looked upon by his fellowmen as a substantial and law abiding citizen, will be given an increase of five cents per day in pay, providing ,a just return in profits from the business permits it. Exeter Advocate, March 15, 1888 Mr. James Atkinson held a wood bee yesterday which was well attended; and a large amount of wood cut ready for the stove, Section 3, Pogo 14 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE JUNE 28, 1973 Congregation started in old school house So . . . you think you have it tough Exeter Advocate, June 30, 1887 When an editor makes a mistake in his paper all the world sees it and calls him a liar. When a private citizen makes a mistake nobody knows it except a few private friends and they come around and ask the editor to keep —it out of the paper. When a private citizen dies the editor is asked to write up all his good qualities and leave out the bad. When the editor dies the private citizens say, "Now the liar will get his desserts."