Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-23
DANIEL.S.ON

DANIELSON
 St. John Baptist society has ar-
 engagements for a reception for the 9 members of tsle society who have been
 in the service. The reception will be
 given after all of the boys have re- turned here.
 Drivers delivery book lost near Franklin or Dyer streets or that vii | einity. Reward if returned to the American Railway Express Co. office. Danielson.-adv.
 Letters received here from some of the Danielson boys of D battery, 5eth
 Of being really at home within few days.
 I. W. Davis. deputy state entomolo-
 gist, was in Hartford Wednesday on a business trip.
 George Jordan, who has been in ser vice at Camp DeVens, has been mus
 tered out and has returned to his home here.
 Buyers from this section were at Camp Devens Wednesday to attend
 an auction sale of horses and mules. A telegram received here announced
 the safe arrival in Boston of Lorimer
 Dixon, on the transport Melita.
 Superintendent Ezra Diman of the
 Canadian Connecticut mills, at Sher-
 brooke, P. O., is visiting in Daniel sen.
 Parents are being warned to keep their children off the Five Mile river,
 where many have continued to skate
 after the ice became in dangerous
 condition
 Students at Killingly High schol are engaged with their mid-winter exami- nations, beginning Wednesday. DanieIson's basketball team is fast citing reputation of being Q cracker
 jack playing organization. and its de- feat of the Webster i've has added to it's prestige.
 Railroad detectives have been in Danielson investigating fhe alleged
 theft of ties from near the tracks of the company in this place.
 Approximately half the looms at the = big plant of the Assawaga Woolen ] company at Dayville are again in op- 2 eration. This is one of the many Q plants hereabouts that is going l through the readiustment period. e The men in the employ of the state department of entomology are contin- ] uing their work through various east n ern Windham county towns this win
 ter.
 0 George c. Mischer of Bridgeport h was a visitor with friends in Daniel = son Wednesday.
 = Sergeant Raymond Hamilton con, Il tinues to remain at United State! $ hospital at Railway, N. J., receivin: 'e treatment for injuries sustained whil' D he was overseas with the 56th Coas l Artillery.
 - At the Connecticut Mills, forne |, employees. of the concern who hav
 been in the service are being receivet ., back at the plant and given work ant 7 an effort made by the company'S em II ployment department to place othe U soldiers who are without positions b, lI5 giving them letters to Frank Coss 5i Putnam, who, is the government labo e agent in this part of the state. j. Commander Walter Jacobs, U. S le N, is at his home on leave. after re l. turning from service overseas. Com j. mander Jacobs went across In May 0 IT last year as executive officer of tn
 Housatonic, which formerly was. y Morgan liner but had been fitted Sou y as a mine layer, and remained unt1
 December, when the vessel sailed fo n home.
 l. Commander Jacobs saw exciting an le perilous months of service in tn
 North sea while the ten ships oI Unit ie ed States Mining Squadron No. 1 wa y, engaged with other vessels ill layln n what was known as the northern min 2, ing barrage, extending across tn ] North sea from the Scottish coast t ei Norway. This was the greatest min Id field ever laid
 is Added to the ever-presert danger ct of handling mines and working i IS areas where attacks by surface yes
 sels of the enemy were always to b \, looked for and guarded against wa en the likelihood of attack by the mur iy derous Hun under sea boats, and tw '; battles with these terrors are mum l. bered among Commander Jacobs eS VI. periences over there. of The Housatonic usually worked wit D. British destroyers lowering abou Id while at other times the America
 hattleship squadron was waiting nt ed far away to squelch any raid that th ey German fleets might attempt upon u ed vessels of the mining squadrons, whic es the Germans knew were at work c
 6 gigantic scheme to bottle up the ed U- boats.
 as The last sortie of the U. S. mir
 tlayers was on Oct 2S. and their chi sh mission in addition to laying min' lie was to deeoy the German fleet in ed lowed to seep through undergrour nd channels from London to Berlin thi ut the mine layers would be at vol ss and probably mot sufficiently pretecte J. by conveying vessels.
 to Had this information proved attra nd tive to the ears of German naval of id cers in high place and they had O he dered their fleet to attack, which ey. is believed they would have done h. s- not the crews of many of their ve as sells mutinied at that time, they wou i'm have encountered the BrAish gra1 Ter fleet, of which the American battl on ship squadron No. was a part, al nd Der Tag" probably would have bet re written upside down for the German he The most powerful fleet the wor d. has ever known was hidden away n ,ll. far from the mine layers to give ba he tic to all or any part of the Germs