The Press., 1912-12-04
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LOCAL NOTICES.

Matter under this head 10 cents per nne.,
 You can get anything in the line O warm goods at The Modem
 Red Cross Seals on Sale at Nils. Beckwith's Millinery Store. Use then on your pay envelopes, Xm"s packagel and mail, and help the good Cru 6.
 SPECIAL ADVICE Come one come all ! to John AnthOny's store. He has { big line of Fancy Goods that will tickle you and make you smile.
 Young folks are especially invited tc visit Tovland at Wasserman's store. He has a fine assortment of gifts for both old and young.
 New Cottage at Auction, Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, Dec. :. Situated on West Main st.. Stafford Springs, al entrance to kecfe's Heights. For par tieulars sec bills. Frederic Faulkner.
 STAFFORD SPRINGS,
 Regular meeting of Rebekah lodge this evening at o'clock.
 Miss Rose Hanley was home from Terryville for the Thanksgiving va cation.
 The MasOns are mak ing arrange ments for their annual dance, to be held Christmas night.
 The Woman's Christian Temper ance Union will hold their regular meeting Friday at 5 p. m. at the Episcopal church.
 Miss Mollie O'Brien of New Brit ain and Miss Helen Wheeler of Union ville were guests of Miss Mary Han ley over Thanksgiving.
 Miss Ethel Whitaker, who has been i'll some months, was operated on iR1 the Springfield hospital Saturday. The operation was a difficult one, but her chances for recovery seem good.
 The annual assembly of the Country club will be held at the Springs House New Years night. The committee of arrangements includes A. l. Mitchell, c. H. Meyers and O. R. Newton.
 H. E. Jones, bookkeeper at the Rhode Island plant, has purchased the jewelry and optical business of O. P. Buskirk and has already taken pos session. The new proprietor will hire a good man for the optical and watch repairing business.
 Ernest Handel, 19, of Crystal Lake is in the Johnson hospital with bull let wound in his forehead, with but little chance for recovery. The prob abilities are that he shot himself, either accidentally or purposely. No one was present when the shooting occurred Sunday afternoon, as the family scattered when Ernest got his rife and started out with the an- nounced intention of fixing his step- brother, Fred Place. There had been a quarrel earlier in the day between Place and Handel, in which the latter threw stones and tried to stab the former with knife. In this quarrel Place used one of his erutches to beat Handel off. Place had been in the Johnson hospital with a broken leg and was still on crutches. This quar- rel was witnessed by a boy named Weirs, who lives nearby, and was with the other two. After the fight Handel started across the fields for home, saying he would fix Place Wiers and Place also started for the house by the way of the highway and arrived before Handel. The two boys hitched up team and started for the home of MT. O'Connell, a neighbor. Ernest arrived at the house soon enough to get the rife and take pot shot at the boys as they rode away. The bullet went high. In the mean time the father had returned to the house, and seeing his son with the rife, ran out in a lot back of the barn. A little later he heard a shot and returning found his son lying near the woodshed with blood stream ing down his face and the rife lying between his legs. Dr. J. P. Hanley was called and had the victim re- moved to the Johnson hospital Cor noner Fisk and Sheriff Helm visited the boy Sunday night, and again Monday, in the hope that he would be.able to make statement. In this they were disappointed, and the fndi- cations are that he will not recover sufficiently to tell how it happened. Several years ago Handel shot and killed his brother in protecting his mother from assault. He was sent to the Industrial School at kMeriden and was later released.