CHAPTER X 



THE FIRST PROBLEMS 



'T^HE Woodbine settlers came into daily contact 

 with the Dennisville people, as the village was the 

 supply-station for the everyday needs of our colonists. 

 All that Woodbine had at the time was one very small 

 grocery store. The occasion of the first clash with 

 our American neighbors was the refusal of the Dennis- 

 ville barber to cut the hair of a young man, an engineer 

 in one of the factories, who had lived in the country 

 for several years and was quite Americanized. The 

 barber's explanation was a threatened boycott by his 

 clientele if he served the Jews. 



Very angry, the young man came straight from the 

 barber to my husband's office, and told him of the 

 incident. My husband was just as indignant as he. 

 Mr. Rice, a fine old gentleman, much respected in 

 the village, was sent for. He had surveyed the Wood- 

 bine lands and procured much work for the Dennis- 

 ville people, so that their pay-envelopes grew bigger 

 and bigger each week through their connection with 

 the Woodbine Land Improvement Company. My hus- 

 band told him that he would be forced to discharge 



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