Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-07

A recent Bath bride received from four
individuals only, gifts amounting to about
two thousand dollars.
A Portland clothing firm celebrated it's
large holiday business by taking it's clerks
on two days trip to Boston. II
The record of deaths in Bath for the
month of January shows only six deaths
and burialS in that city, which is an I'M
usually small number.
T Miss Maude Brigham of the Lincoln
school, Auburn, has kept a list of the
different ways her name has been spelled:
brighten, Bridgom, Bridgen, Bridgam,
Bridjom, Bridgeham, Bridgim, Bridegam,
Bridgejem, brichem.
A member of one of the largest grocery
concerns in Portland whose house handles
a good deal of tobacco, made the sur
prising statement recently that more plug
tobacco was consumed in Maine than in
any other state of the union.
What came near being a fatal accident
occurred recently in the family of B.
Boulier of Caribou. His two-year-old son
had been watching some larger boys
play horse, and very naturally wanted
to do the same. Finding piece of rope,
the little fellow wound one end around the
neck of his little brother, one year old,
who was on the bed, fastening the other
end around one of the bed posts, The
child soon crept off the bed and fell, the
rope tightening around its neck, anu
would soon have strangled had not its
mother, hearing cry, FASTENED to the
rescue.
A West Paris corresp ondent writes:
about two weeks ago a travelling agent
was in town selling most wonderful
device for putting on lamp wicks. He
persuaded some to believe that when this
marvellous invention was uesd it would
prove great saving of expense and labor.
There would be no trimming of wicks,
that article would last forever; no wash
ing of chimneys for there could be no gas
or smoke, and finally it was triumphantly
asserted that the oil would last three
times as long. He had his piece" well
learned and spoke it well, too well for
some who were too skeptical to believe
that piece of metal resembling tin, per-
forated with few holes and placed over
the end of the wick, could accomplish
proves to be a fraud, and this agent must
be a wicked deceiver. In one family one
dollar was given for five of these lnven-
tons only to put them in the fire at the
end of week."
An exceedingly delicate bit of skin
grating has undoubtedly saved the arm
of Bailey Wilson of West Minot 1t will
be remembered that some time ago Mr..
| Wilson accidentally fell into a brush fire,
receiving severe burns on his left arm his
| leg, body and face. The arm was the
more seriously burned. Mrs. Wilson who
| has been for some time IN BrunsWlck.
came up to care for her husband. From
Mrs. Wilson's arm has been taken small
| patches of skin which would make In the
entire piece a five-inch square. These. as
well as skin from Mr.. Wilson'S body,
have been grated into the arm of Mr..
| Wilson by DIR. c. E. Tobey and DR.. c. H.
Rankin, and are already growing and
forming connecting strips across the raw
burns. A later accident rubbed the burns
so that a second grating was necessary
on some parts of the arm. In all, about
| 135 bits of skin have been grated on Mr..
Wilson'S arm and the fact that he is re-
covering fairly well from tile accident at
the age of 6S years, is rather remarkable.