The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-10
BY courtesy Of the Kennebec Journal.

IouseheepeI, loI ne mas no family.
Guests are welcome at his studio at GER
tam hours each day. His pictures are
many and some of his surf scenes hold
the eye almost as the very waves them
| selves. Last year large party of art
! students with their teacher spent some
time at the Island Inn, and some of the
other summer people declared that they
even daubed the rocks with paint"
Mrs. Jeanette Lee is another dis
, tinguished cottager. This summer she
| Is in Europe and her cottage lust back
of the post office, facing the mainland is
unoccupied. Her books Uncle William"
and Happy Island are said to taste
of Monhegan," for while the scene is
not actually laid there, many of the
! characters are in part real Monhegan
people.
One day in search of Patience Staple
tons book, Trailing Yew," we went to
| the summer library in the home Of ore
OF the cottagers, DR.. Cabot of New
York. Mrs. Cabot explained that the
proceeds from this library go towards
supporting a free bed in New York
hospital. This library is greatly appre-
ciated by the people on the island. But
Trailing Yew" could not be found.
Mrs. Cabot said that she had been trying
for years to get it, but it is out of print,
and it seems impossible to obtain a copy
THE LITTLE CHURCH.
We had been by the little church many
times, for it is set down directly in the
road, with hotel behind and a dwelling
house before, so when Sunday morning
came we decided to take a look inside.
Thirty people had gathered when at
1890, the service began. The preacher
was fisherman, from Port Clyde. The
little church with its bare white walls,
and decorations of dead pussy willows
left from last spring seemed desolate
enough. The evening service was said
to be well attended, but we chose the
rocks by the sea, instead.
There is a good school on the island
and last term the teacher was an Au-
burn young woman, Miss Ethel May
| Towle. So successful was she that the
people are devoutly hoping for her re-
turn in the fall
Just because the children and young
people live on an island ten miles from
the mainland, are they debarred from
winter sports such as skating and slid
little settlement and below the light
+ ipStoS I'LL 10 llOOutu anu IIeIC lldlly
merry parties of skaters can be often
seen. Then, too, lighthouse hill is
capital place for sliding, and it is used
| for this purpose.
| Monhegan boasts of one general store
and here one can buy Ice cream and soda,
souvenir post cards, clothing and gro
ceries.
Two horses, white one that has been
| hare two nd
about two months ago, make up the horse
| colony of Monhegan. The red one was
dubbed the automobile horse" by one
of our number because he is afraid of
automobiles and so was bought for "A
reasonable price by Monhegan man,
and he came to live on the island where
forevermore automobiles shall not fret
him. The COW colony numbers about
! five. One morning Mrs. Cow came
over from Friendship to spend the sum-
! mer at one of the hotels. She stood in a
scow, securely roped in, and was lowed
/ by motor boat. 1t was funny sight
THE ROSE BORDERED CEMETERY.
| The little cemetery was left for the
last, and it was not until the morning of
Our. departure that we again climbed the
lighthouse hill, this time, however, stop
ping at the cemetery enclosed by pick
ct fence around which stood a row of
sentinel spruces, and about which the
wild roses and trailing yew grow in riot
Gus profusion. A tiny stone bore the
! name of ''Phelbe Starting, died March 4,
/ 1874, aged one month";" Close beside
! this was another small stone, MARY
/ Startling, died Oct. %, 1890, aged 2
years, MONTHS These We're the old
est stones bearing inscriptions, but there
, were others with no names upon them.
! The stone of Hannah, wife of Joseph
Startling, who died in 1910, was grey and
moss grown. Joseph Startling died in
1856. Among the other names were
Henry Trefetheren, who died in 1888, and
i his wife Jemima, who died in 1905. Joseph
| Trefetheren died in 1923. Other names
seen on the stones included Humphrey,
Wincapaw, West, Marshall, Mullens,
Pierce, Davis, Brooks, Studley, Albee.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Albee, who died
two years ago was the pioneer hotel
house summer people first came thirty
years ago. So successful was she that
gradually this modest little home grew
to be real hotel, and was enlarged
many time. Now there are three hotels
on the island and one other which while
it does not go by the name of hotel has
its share of people. S. M. c., in the
Lewiston Sun.
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