Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-15

land have entertained a party of friends at the Marland cottage at Pleasant View.
 Miss Myrtice L'Heureux of North Main street will have the members of the Crusaders of the Baptist church at her home for a meeting Wednesday evening.
 section of Connecticut will make their usual Holy Thursday pilgrimage l to Hartford, the see of the diocese. The plan to form a mill league made I up of baseball teams representing the l manufacturing concerns in killingly, Plainfield. Putnam and Thompson has l fallen through, as no agreement on policy could be reached. Some of the I towns wanted semi professional ball, others wanted Sunday games, others l did not. so the whole proposition has 1 fallen flat.
 1 The Suicide Fleet is the title given Uncle Sam's vessels that were en- l gagged last year in laying down the great mine barrage in the North sea, l from the Orkney islands to the coast l of Norway, in what is described by | a New York paper as the first pubtica- tion of the exceptional hazards in which the crews of these vessels en- gagged in order to cutoff the German submarines from their favorite fields of operations. There is special inter- est here in what the Suicide Fleet ac- complished, for Commander Walter Jacobs, U.- S. N., was in charge of the tHousatonic, a new vessel and one of the fleet of mine layers that braved ev- erything in the way of perils of the sea to put the Huns out of business
 Incidentally the HousatCnic made the
 record of laying mines faster than they were ever laid before.
 The blowing up of the Mont Blanc
 loaded with T N T. wrecked the city
 of Halifax, yet whole fleet of the
 minelayers, each carrying as deadly 6 cargo as the Halifax death ship oper- ate@ for months with daily prospect of meeting the same fate. In fair wea- ther and foul they went out into the treacherous North sea and continued
 their work. facing the dangers of sub
 marine attack, of hitting enemy mines
 or some of their own previously lait
 down-frequently in fogs and tl1icl weather, they faced the additiona lperi1 Of collisions between their owr
 ships, happening that might have meant the destruction of the entire | fleet.
 So perfect, however. was the skill with which the vessels were navigatet and handled that no serious accident occurred. and this is regarded in higf quarters as refecting exceptional mer
 it upon the abilities of the officers ant
 men,
 l Admiral Strauss. in charge of tn
 minelaying fleet. is now going back t Europe to take up the mines, Of Whici
 more than 56,000 were put down.
 The Connecticut Mills baseball tean
 has scheduled two games to be play
 ed here on Memorial day with the fas
 St. Mary's team of JeWett City, tear
 that showed well here in the Iabo
 day game of last year. This will mar . the real opening of the season for tn
 local team, though there is a possibil = ity of some earlier games. A game S scheduled with Goodyear for .Saturda, = May 31. The Connecticut Mills wi
 open the 1919 season with bright pros k poets. Through the generosity of tn = company, the team will be equippe k with new uniforms and will benefit i ;. other ways by the support of the com : lpany.
 d Suggestions are heard that all tf l. men Of this town who have served i :; the world war join with the veteran :; of the G. 4. R. Memorial day in pay !, ing tribute to the heroic dead of tw
 great conflicts. A large percentage tt killingly's service men will have bee e mustered out of service before Me q morial day Their presence in the lir W with the noble defenders of this ns e tion's unity would be an inspiratio e for all, it is held, and new lesson e patriotism for young and old.