The Press., 1913-06-18
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Attorney M. D. O'Connell has re turned from short vacation in Col chester.
 The annual picnic of the Sunday school of the Methodist church is to be held at Evergreen Park on Tuesday June 24th.
 The junior class of the high school entertained the graduating class at the Pownell cottage at Crystal Lake Monday evening. Games, boating and music were features of the entertain ment, and it proved a very jolly oc- casion.
 Miss M. E. Caryl has left the John- son hospital and has taken a more lucrative position as district nurse for the Metropolitan company, with headquarters at Palmer. Miss Leviua Wood has resigned her position and gone to her home in Springfield Miss H. N. Rollins has given her notice and will go to her home in Montreal a little later.
 In connection with the new state highway, which is to start on this end and go toward West Stafford, a phase of the work has arisen that may require special borough meet ing. The state does not build over Is feet in width, and as a part of the work is in the borough limits, more than that width will be required. The state officials ask that the borough take care of the extra con- struction required. First Selectman Adams thinks that this condition should be promptly complied with in view of the eheerfulness with which the state officials met the wishes of the local public in building from Main street in the borough.
 Bert Carpenter was badly wounded at Alex Mussio's place in Staffordyille last Sunday, and as result liquor raid was made Tuesday forenoon on the premises. Ten bottles of beer and jug of whiskey were found in the hen yard Mussio was arranged later in the forenoon on a charge of illegal keeping and was assessed a fine and costs amounting to $142, which he paid. In the afternoon, in connection with the same affair, Thomas Donlan, Sr., Thomas Donlan, Jr., Argentine Lazarus and Alex Music were before the court, charged with assault and breach of the peace. Thomas Donlan, Sr., pleaded guilty and paid a fine of S2O and costs. Thomas Donlan, Jr |, pleaded not guilty and was fined $5 and costs. Music and Lazarus were each fined $2O and costs. All the defendants paid. It appeared from the evidence that Carpenter was with Arthur Baxter in Mussio's place. Baxter claimed that Donlan, who was in the place, owed him $4. Don- Ian said he did not owe it and asked Baxter outside to collect it. All went out and when the dust settled Carpen- ter was the most hurt. He had a wound in the side, made by a knife or a broken bottle, extending to his lung. Officers of the local court be- lieve that conditions at Staffordville are far from what they should be- The fracas Sunday, taken in connec- tion with other reports that have come from that end of the town, in- dicate that if the lid is on at all it is very insecurely fastened. An attempt win be made to correct this condition. Carpenter was brought to the office of Dr. O. B. Newton Sunday evening The doctor found two wounds, one deep extending to the lung, the other slight In his opinion they were caused by knife. The doctor dressed the wounds and sent the man to the Johnson hospital Carpenter has re- covered sufficiently to be out and was at the trial Tuesday.