Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-26
DANIELSON


 more generously this year than ever to | the call for Thanksgiving offerings for the Day Kimball hospital at Putnam, | it was announced Tuesday by Mrs. | George M. Burroughs. Broad street, |, who has. been in charge here of receiv- l \ ing donations. | At an early hour Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Burroughs had received cash do- nations amounting to a total of $130.S5 and other gifts of money that she was assured of had not been received. so the final figures will, be higher. In ad-N dition Mrs. Burroughs received PSI bags well filled. with groceries, vege- tables and other things for the hospi- tai store rooms and "a number of boxes filled with canned fruits and berries.
 s The money gifts. this year to the hospital are about four times as large as ever received heres before at Thanksgiving offering.
 This year the Civic Federation will have charge of the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals in Danielson. The splendid custom that hundreds of thousands throughout the country a have made a very special feature of 3 their kindnesses and benevolence at the Christmas season will be urged ! here this year with greater vigor than ever, and. a ready response from the public is anticipated.
 It is of special interest this season to note that S5 per cent of the fund \ that will be realized through the sale k of the Red Cross Christmas seals will E remain in Danie1sonland will be deyot- ed to the relief of tubercular cases. With such a splendid organization as the Civic Federation in charge of the K sale of the seals and the real benefit to local people that will result from the liberal sale of them, a new high 1 record of distribution of the seals un- doubtedly will be made here.
 Remember the date of the Austin auction at the Gardiner farm on the road leading from Wauregan. Conn., to Danielson, Friday, Nov. 2S. 1919, at E 10 o'clock a. m. If stormy postponed to first fair day after. Sale conduct
 ed by Witter Bros, Public Auction- E eers' Office. No. 42 Main street. Dan-
 ielson, Conn-adv.
 k Rev. John R. Pratt, who is coming \ to Brooklyn to be pastor of the Con \ gregatiena church, having accepted
 the call of the congregation. preached E his farewell sermon at the First Con
 gregational church in Verona. N. J.
 last Sunday, taking for his topic. The \ Joy of Religion. Rev. MT. Pratt. whC E comes to Brooklyn to begin his pas a torate December 1. began his service H in Verona Dec. l. 1908. and on tht E coming Sunday will have rounded ou a sixteen yesrs of earnest labor. 4 H farewell reception is to be given Rev E and Mrs. Pratt at the church in Ve
 roma, Friday evening of this week. Rev. MT. Pratt submitted his resig < nation as pastor of Verona church las 4 July. Owing to that being the vaca tion period no action was taken upol
 it until September. when a meeting G was called for the purpose. On tn
 first ballot the congregation decided = not to release it's minister. He how r. ever, told his people that his decision m to leave was final and upon a secont m ballot he was allowed to go. H H. agreed to remain for few weeks
 though, to get the fall work of tn ce church organized During the interva
 he has preached several times i
 Brooklyn, and the Verona congrega
 ton has heard a number of ministers
 During his pastorate at Verona ReN elk MT. Pratt served the borough for on g. year as mayor. >His church there ha elk been enlarged during his pastorate t
 twice its original size and has nor it. than doubled it's membership.
 Ial Juot what it meant to be nnembe -J or the l anhG0 oulC1ue- De6Iy as LII
 mine-laying and mine -sweepin It. squadrons are known to the member ia of Uncle San1s navy is wildly se A $ forth in an article that has just ap
 peared in a paper published in Ne al York which city has just rendered H. remarkable reception to the officer
 and men of the fleet of 57 vessels jus ial returned home after performing OF " of the most perilous feats accomplish A ed during the war. There is speci; e. interest kere in the work of the flee A Of which Commander W. J. Jacobs. ,ld S. N, now at his home here, had he thrilling part.
 Describing the work of the fleet tf od article referred to says:
 Till Plunging head on through the gra elk. surging spume of the North Sea, Il we mine sweepers. dragging 1.S00 feet ( nd wire and the supporting kites behin ng them, battled with northeast gal
 the crew ever alert for the sight of
 mine cut loose from it's moorings ,e- The roar of the gale drowned ol he the vail of the fog signals as Il : blackness of the northern nights creI
 slowly over the. face of the lashin - head seas. High in the foretop- of tf sweepers the lookouts peered throug i the murk for the floating menaC
 which would send them to destructio
 Keen eyes sighted a round object ft moment bobbing up from the mid
 of the white water Crash! spoke
 gun on the fo'castle head, to be fo
 lowed by roar even greater than tt
 gales, a column of water shot | toward the overcast heavens. for mo-
 than 200 feet, and another mine the 5000 that composed the Nort
 Sea mine barrage. laid by America
 blue-jackets to stem the tide of u
 l-taking U-beats: had gone. q
 The job these officers. and bluejacl
 cts ed for the United States and Il a world is done. A total of more tha
 22,000 mines has been destroyed l
 the Overseas Mine Sweeping Divi
 ion, under the supervision of Rear Al
 miral Joseph Strauss. It took tn
 mine destroying fiotilla not quite if
 months to clean up an area 2S0 mil
 long by 40 miles wide, which was
 sown with mines as to present z
 impregnable barrier to Germany's LII
 dersea boats. The world wonder,
 when our navy's mine laying squa'