The Press., 1918-08-08


 of MT. and Mrs. William MeCulloch.
 Two attachments were placed on tn store of James Armstrong last Friday ona In favor of A. 0. Hunt & Go. 0 Springfield, to cover a bill of s435, an, the other for S45 rent bill of John sena Onlcer Hayes closed the store.
 Miss G. A. Washburn is in town after long absence in New Jersey Miss washburR is a guest of MT. and Mrs. Reuben Converse until her house. on Highland Terrace is vacated by the Melcher family.
 Miss Lucy Alden is 8 guest oi friends at Port Henry on Lake Cham plain. N Y. Miss Alden, while at her work in the Hartford Public Li- brary. had her hand caught in an electric fan. causing cuts, bruises and much pain. but nothing serious re- suited.
 Anson B. Handy has been elected superintendent of schools and prin- cipal of Stafford high school. He was chosen from a field of 30 appli- cants MT. Handy was graduated from Bridgewater normal school in 1904 and from Harvard college in 1908. He has had teaching exper- fence at East Greenwich R. l., Medford and Barre. at Ashville, R. l.. at York. Me. and principal of the Putnam high school since 1915. He was reelected for the coming year | with an increase in salary but the Stafford position appealed to him and he decided to resign the Putnam pos ition in favor of this one. MT. Handy is. S5 years old. married and has two children Mrs. Handy was graduated from Radcliffe college.
 Private John F. Zollet has been seriously wounded according to not ifcation received from the war office Monday evening. Private Zollet is .22 years old. He enlisted at New Haven in July 1917. joining Go. K. lO2nd Infantry. Some of the Go. K. .lads were here at that time. He sailed for France with the expedit- ionary forces. A few months after 'his arrival at the front hewas slightly wounded but recovered sufficiently to be sent to the front again. He re- ceived his recent wound on July 20 He is the only Stafford boy to be wounded in these last battles so far, for Private Hewitt and Phillips were wounded on June 5 and 16 respec- lively. Private Albert Hewitt, in a recent letter, says thatshe was gassed instead of severely wounded as re- ported. but he is recovering. He also mentions that Private Phillips is in the same hospital and they see each other frequently.
 MT. and Mrs. w. E. Melcher and son leave for Moltrose, Col, where he has taken a position as superintendent of schools. He will be in charge of the county schools and will have fifty teachers under him. MT. Melcher came here in 1916 and was the first superintendent the town had. Dur ing his two terms here he added greatly to the efficiency of the rural ! schools by bringing them all under one system. He secured standard tests and brought the Stafford schools up to the standard in most of the studies. Tn comparing the work of Stafford schools with that of the schools of other towns and cities which he, did by means of these tests, he found that Stanford made better showing than Boston in arithmetic work. Besides his work in the school line MT Me1cher took an act i've interest in other affairs. He was chairman of the War Savings committee, chairman of the Junior Food Army committee and was appointed special emergency club leader of the Junior Food Army by the U. s. department of Agriculture
 MT. Melcher is really a western man and came. east only to attend Harvard, hence his longing to. get back to the west. Mir. and Mrs. Mel cher have made many friends during their residence here who will regret their leaving town.
 Sfafford ..