Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-16
Maine Gossip
Old Satsuma

Bent form OF creamy cay, Will SiHiAo
benign,
Bright with the sheen of crystal glaze,
and robed
AS Sinims Sage: whose brow and ears
long-lobed.
Bring fortune. Whence the grace
divine
OF tracery enamelled on your gown
That holds mems eyes; that makes
them say and frown:
Piece of Old Satsuma:
From patient hands that washed the
chosen earths;
From mellow months of MOSTLY cool
repOse;
Then blent and tempered by six thou
sand blows;
From modellers KNIT; from glaze;
from fires reb!rths;
The cracked faience to the painter
came
Who traced the lines that brought his
master fame
Prince of Old Satsuma.
I've bent DER many an Geographic
page.
But cannot find. to give the men their
due,
| Who made my little Fukurokuju:
The nameless potters of feudal age.
Forgotten. now. their secrets; gone.
Though 1 know this. I've found in
lHcIH the nGdTI
Heart Of Old Satsuma!
BY William I. Schwartz. in asst"
Magazine.
Minus four cows, but thanking his
lucky stars that he did not share
their fate. is Loren Packard of War
rem. Last Thursday afternoon the
New York train came over the Knox
& Lincoln Division in two sections.
The special overlook Mr.. Packard
and his herd of cows. and blowing
through the latter killed four of the
animals. Mr.. Packard escaped by
leaping over the embankment, but
even then found himself in a perilous
position as the carcass of one of the
cows almost rolled upon him.
Unusually high tides were reported
Monday and Tuesday. in addition to
the tide of Republican ballots.
The prize sunfiower is claimed by
Harvey w. Richards of Rockland. 1t
is II feet 7 inches high and has
leaves which measure 20 inches
across.
Houlton reports that two couples
who were camping at Grand Lake
drove 80 miles through the rain Mon
day to cast their votes
The discount on Canadian money.
checks and currency, is now 1921 in
the Fort Fairfield banks and at stores
about the town. The drop in the ex-
change is very welcome to the
townspeople.
Robert M. Wylie of West Boothbay
Harbor thinks that although he has
passed the age of so, he is the young
est living son of a veteran of the
War of 1872. His father, BENJAMIN
Wylie, was a volunteer at the age of
Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Ham of Wash
ington, d. c.. and Mr.. and Mrs. F.. F..
Durfee of Providence, r. l., who are
guests of friends in Auburn. have
just returned from a trip to north
/ ern Aroostook, and report game of
all kinds very plentiful. One dav tho
party saw 81 deer and on another oc-
casion IA were sighted All were very
tame and inquisitive. Fish were al.
so very numerous and among the pri-
yes captured was one red spot trout
which weighed 81 pounds.
This is what happened or didn.t
!. happen. whichever way you look at
it, in Fort Fairfield:
The weather on Friday and Sat.
urday was not altogether pleasant
|. though it might have been consider.
ably worse. No rain fell although il
threatened to shower many times
and there was hardly any sunshine
during the two days"
| At any. rate let US hope a please MT
time was had by all.
The Rod. Line and Gun club Of
East Bluehili is said to be the, only
social organization Of its kind in the
State which has both resident and
nonresident members. the officers be-
ing elected alternately from each,
The club had doubled in membership
since its founding and feels that it's
aims for clean sportsmanship and
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