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tions. The Civic Club instructed the people in politics 

 and social literature; a girls' physical culture club had 

 for its object, of course, physical training; a volunteer 

 fire department did efficient work; and a brass band 

 was organized. 



The village statutes were so well kept and the law 

 so much respected that a Justice of the Peace was the 

 only officer there, and he was usually busy writing 

 letters in English for the settlers, as he was seldom if 

 ever called upon to exercise his official duties. 



The sanitary conditions and other matters relative 

 to the physical welfare of the community were left in 

 control of the Woodbine Improvement Society, organ- 

 ized for this very purpose. 



