Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1914 — MONHEGAN ISLAND TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MONHEGAN ISLAND TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY

This is one of the village streets on Monhegan island, a rocky stretch ten miles off the coast of Maine, where next August will be celebrated the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of Capt. John Smith, the first white man to set foot on the island. Monhegan has a population of about one hundred, whose living' is do rived from lobster fishing and the entertainment of summer visitors and artists.