Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-26

| ing good health and wish her many
years of health and prosperity.
Vol |. No. l. of The Pointer" Ocean
| Points new paper. has Just appeared.
| 1t is breezy little sheet, cleVerly
edited, With news right up 70 the
minute. In the editorial announce
nent the editors say: I'VE print &C.
eidents, marriages and scandals with
great glee, beause we know who our
! subscribers are" The present nJm-
Der viii be the last Of the season of
I1911 In 1912 the paper will appear
monthly, with bright editorial staff
land a first-class printers devil es-
pecially engaged for the occasion. If
the circulation increases as it should.
Your Uncle Samuel viii have to erect
federal building here 10 take care
of its second class matter.
Some time Monday night the wind
hauled around into the south, little
! south by west, and Tuesday morning
the white caps We're rolling in across
the bay and as far out as the eye
could see 1t had evidently been blow
ling quite fresh outside, for soon after
breakfast the fishing fleet commenced
TO come in from the eastward. 1T was
la beautiful sight. Every skipper
trimmed his ship according TO the
nerve he had. Some with bare poles
from the trees up, others with fiat
tened jibs and booms clewed up to
the last reef point-ali seeking the
harbor of Boothbay. The Monhesan
from Portland. bound east, came along
about 10 o'clock and turned up a 10
foot furrow of good old ocean water
that looked real sudsy. Then the May
Archer from Monhegan rounded the
Point with a good sized bone in her
teeth. There was very little sailing
for pleasure during the forenoon, and
those who did venture out, eneased
throughout with etarpaulins and oil
skins, all reported il a little moist in
spots. From Card rock way up the
coast by Green island, the breakers
were rolling i'm like a September gale
| 1t was Il tempest in a teapot.
| Ocean Point is wholly unconyen-
tionai, ana there lies her great charm.
| There are no hard and fast society
rules laid down: the best people gather
here summer afttr summer and live
the simple life They entertain So
cially and their Eat homes" last from
morning Till night. The rapid change
some resorts is not praetieed here
Those who come here, come for rest
and recreation and not as clothes
horses to show the latest creations of
Worth. Please don't misunderstood
me: every lady dresses we'll ana in
good taste, but appropriate for the oc-
casion
I strolled along the shore road the
,Io, Il
way that extends beyond the cottages.
where l could watch the sea come roll
ing in, and hear il bang necessarily
against the rock-ribbed coast. sat
and watched the pleasure craft and
coasters as they wallowed in choppy
sea, and the mail boat until it be-
came black smudge on the horizon,
way out Monhegan way. / watched
until the picture dissolved itself and
new scenes came upon natures can
vas, then | took the woodland path
through the forest for home-a path
so dense that the sun seldom filters
through the overhanging branches, |
narrow as an Indian trail and so still
that the silence is almost oppressive |
Carpeted with natures rug, made from
pine needles, one is shod in silence as
he travels through. Al the extreme
end of this woodland vista saw |
through the opening. the sun shining
on the outside world. l emerged intoi
the bright sunlight like a blinking owl. /
across the hummiclW pasture III
travelled to where the roads divide !
then down the winding country road
10 the little cilimp Of cottages On the