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A meeting was called in the
Town I-Tall Auditorium, Exeter on
Friday, September 16, 1938 for
the purpose of instituting a new
chapter of the Order of the
Eastern Star. It was to be known
as Exeter Chapter No. 222.
Mr. Harold Kitchen, Worthy
Grand Patron presided at the
meeting and invited the Worthy
Grand Matron, Sister Zetta Keith
and others appointed, to assist in
the ceremonies.
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The first staff of officers were;
Worthy Matron, Mrs. Ida San-
ders; Worthy Patron, Mr, Edwin
Dignan; Associate Matron, Mrs,
Roxie Beavers; Associate
Patron, Mr. William J. Smith;
Secretary, Miss Reta Rowe (Mrs.
Reta Smith); Treasurer, Mrs.
Jennie Lawson.
Some of the other officers were
Conductress, Mrs. Betsy Hunt;
Associate Conductress, Mrs.
Catherine Smith; Chaplain, Mrs.
Jessie Misner; Marshal, Mrs.
Chrissy Telfer; Organist, Mrs.
Elva Coates; Adah, Miss Olive
Lawson (Mrs. Olive Hicks);
Ruth, Mrs. Ella Middleton;
Esther, Mrs. Mary Sanders;
Martha, Mrs. Beatrice Green;
Electa, Mrs, Myrtle Tanton;
Warder, Miss Maud Horton;
Sentinel, Mr, B.W.F. Beavers.
Following the instituting
ceremonies the first meeting of
the chapter was held. Many
Grand Chapter Officers were
present and also Mrs, Ann
Nichols, District Deputy Grand
Matron from District No. 5,
The officers of Forest City
Chapter No, 13 opened the
Chapter meeting. The degrees of
the Order were conferred by the
officers of Orphah Chapter.
On October 12, 1938 the meeting
of the Chapter was held in Trivitt
Memorial Parish Hall. In
February of the next year the
Chapter was meeting in new
rooms on Main St. in the Frayne
building, In December, 1972 it
moved to the Exeter Public
School gymnasium where it still
meets.
Four charter members are still
members of the Chapter, Mrs.
Elva Coates, Mrs. Jennie
Lawson, Mrs. Reta Smith, Mrs,
Ella Middleton.
The Exeter Chapter helped
furnish rooms in the hospital, it
also supports many organizations
like the Retarded Children,
Cancer Society,, and Muscular
Dystrophy, Chapter members
also contribute to the Grand
Chapter Benevolent Fund, and to
the Grand Chapter's home for the
aged in Agincourt near Toronto.
Another program supported by
the local Chapter is E.S.T.A,R.L.,
the Easter Star Training Awards
for Religious Leadership. Each
year a bursary is given to a
second year university student
training for religious work.It is a
non-denominational award.
is today. The dried apples were
brought to town along with the
butter and eggs and exchanged
for merchandise.
Labor Saving Apple Peeler
As a lad it was my duty on
Saturday morning along with my
brother Herb to peel enough
apples for a big kettle of ap-
plesauce. Hand work was pretty
slow, especially when our chums
were out playing.
As the stores were displaying a
small machine for peeling ap-
ples, we had a longing for one of
those labor-saving devices which
you cranked by hand. In spare
time we went around the streets
gathering dry bones which were
fairly prevalent and finally ac-
cumulated enough for which we
were paid sixty cents and pronto
we purchased an apple-parer. I
think that was about the begin-
ning of those labor saving
gadgets for the kitchen.
Robert Laing, Apple King
Mr. Robert Laing, who lived in
what was the old Verity home,
was the apple king. He had
several gangs of men that picked
and packed the apples for export
in barrels. He would buy up an
orchard and set the men to work
with a government inspector to
supervise the size and quality. In
those days nearly every farm had
its orchard and spraying and
handling was not as systemitized
as it is today.
It was Mr. Laing who in-
troduced the packing of apples in
bushel baskets to which the trade
owes so much today. But he had a
long legal fight before convincing
the authorities that the bushel
basket was superior for the job
than the wooden barrel.
Most of the apples packed were
for the British market and the
whole business of buying,
packing and shipping was quite a
gamble and not always
profitable.
Apple butter is still being made
in smaller quanitities and I
venture to say that many of the
young people today won't know
what we are talking about,Many
used home stored crocks of apple
butter for winter use as a kind of
preserve or jam for bread,
Section 1, Page 9 T1-18 EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE JUNE 28, 1973
FIRST OFFICER CORPS - The first corps of officers for the Exeter chapter No,222 of the Order of the Eastern
Star were installed in 1935. As shown above, the officers were: back row left, Elva Coates, Jessie Misener,
B.W.F. Beavers, Maude Horton and Chrissy Telfer; middle row, left, Olive Hicks, Ella Middleton, Mary
Sanders, Beatrice Green, _Myrtle Tanton and Jennie Lawson; front row left, Catherine Smith, W,J, Smith, Rox-
ie Beavers, Ida Sanders, E.M. Dignan, Betsy Hunt and Reta Rowe.
Exeter Times, Feb. 21, 1878
PENNY READINGS The next
penny readings entertainment
will be held in Fanson's Hall on
Monday evening next. The large
number who attend these en-
tertainments is sufficient
evidence that they are worthy of
support and this one promises to
be equal to any yet held. Go to the
hall early and secure a seat.
Admission 5 cts.
Exeter Times, Oct 1877
DOG STOLEN - A few days since,
a man named Smith, who for a
month previous had had charge
of Dr. Hutchinson's horse, "Galt
Reporter" left town and probably
didn't notice that he had one end
of a rope wound around his wrist,
• attached to the other, a dog,
However he had and the deg and
he, or he and the dog, went to
Brussels. Mr. J. Hanlin regretted
the loss of his canine and the
Brussels constable arrested the
progress of both and sent the dog
back to his owner and — let his
prisoner go.
JOTTINGS BY J.M.S.
(Nov. 27, 1952)
Some will remember the dried
apple factory that ran for several
years in Exeter north, did a
thriving business and finally
folded up.
The apple industry was big
business at one time in this
community, and the drying of
apples was a sideline in which a
great many householders in-
dulged. The making of cider and
apple-butter were other sidelines
and while not out of date, are not
carried on on the grand scale
they were not many years back.
The dried apple factory was a
fairly long building and as we
remember it there must have
been from fifteen to twenty-five
employees. The apples were
peeled on peeling machines,
quartered and cored and then
placed away to dry in drying
ovens.
In many a farm home a drying
rack hung above the kitchen
stove with perhaps half a bushel
of apples spread out to dry. In
those days the fly menace was
not considered as unhealthy as it
Robert Laing was
area's 'apple king'
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