Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-09
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
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 Anybody know x216? It Is a funny name, but the only one they have to so by in solving the puzzle that the postal force in Danielson is trying to i1intangle. Maybe if you don't know iX21s you may have knowledge of some gentleman, it is presumed, who ids shy two shirts and a number of collars.
 In any event, there is a package keking around at the postoffice and the package contains some clean laun- dry, and the only Identification mark is x216. Down at the laundry on Center street they say they never heard of the gentleman, none of their clients being identifiable under that code, and His Majesty. the proprietor of the laundry. that brings remem- bFances of Shantung, likewise denies ell responsibility for designating any one as X216. But there's chance that some good-wife- may recognize her husband under this registration mark, which sounds like an automobile dealers license number. Maybe the owner lives in Room POP" but the mai nidea is to locate him before he runs out of clean shirts and collars. The postoffice department has no laundry annex and the stuff is bur den on their hands.
 Also the postmaster and his clerks are raking their brains in an effort to solve the puzzle of pencil box carry ing a card, ITO Ellen from Beatrice" and wondering who owns an A and F zylophone that escaped from it's wtap- pings during the Christmas rush and is now rattIins around the office like the wailing of lost soul.
 These are the after-holiday myste- ries that confront the usually com placent office force. which has enough Fra da hnTn cn UTifhn1If trying to maintain lost and found. department.
 If you have a good small touring car to sell, write care The Bulletin, Daniel son, Conn.-adv.
 Commander Walter F. Jacobs, U. S. N, is included in a list of naval off cers recommended by Josephus Dan iels, secretary of the navy for dec oration with distinguished service medals. Commander Jacobs, now of the United States naval war college at Newport. is the son of Hon. and Mrs. Frederick A. Jacobs of Danielson, and only recently returned from overseas after months of highly perilous ser vice in clearing the North sea of
 Relative to the awards, press des- patch says:
 In his letter to Chairman page. the secretary of the navy says this list of citations and decorations was not act ed upon by the board of awards.
 ''The majority of the officers and men in the attached list,' MT. Daniels informed Senator Page, "as you will note from the citations, were those en- gagged in minesweeping in the North sea. and their work was not completed at the time the board of awards ad- 5IX<ned. I consider this service as ex- ceptionally rneritorious, and one of the most hazardous in which any of our forces were engaged during the war, and it appeared to me that a just rec ognition was due those engaged in this work. The attached list, marked B, were awarded the navy cross for eX ceptionally meritorious and distin- guished service in a position of great responsibility as commanding officers of the mine sweepers and submarine ct1asers in the exacting and hazardous service of ridding the North sea of mines"
 The seven officers who have been awarded distinguished service medals, named in Lss additional list of dec orations- are:
 Beck, William L., commander.
 Woolson, Edwin A.. commander.
 Rodgers. John. commander.
 Meen. EdYard ", commander, re- serve fleet.
 Jacobs. Walter F., commander.
 For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility in command of division of mine sweepers engaged in the exacting and hazardous service of sweeping deep sea mines from the North sea:
 Nichols. D. A.. lieuetnant Gunior Erade), reserve fleet.
 For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in inventing and developing an electric sweep essential 10 successful sweeping of mines. North sea barrage:
 Davis. Noel, lieutenant.
 Commander Jacobs was the com mzHding officer of a division of the fpinesWeeping fleet and in personal charge of the Elder. flagship of the first division.
 In naval circles the work performed by the mine sweepers is rerarded as among the most 1audable of the forces HRsat during and after the war. The danger was extreme and the officers and men of the sweepers were en- gagged in their task for months.
 Over in the town of Brooklyn the assessors when information that they are seeking is denied them, go after it on their own account. A case in point Is that of the Crystal Water company, kEG CO4EETu hnOSS It6HINOI6 with in the town of Killingly and from which the supply for the borough of Danielson and a part of tho West Side In East Brooklyn is obtained,
 Recently assessors of Brooklyn, en- gagged in making a general revaluat tion Of property in their town, in accord with a state law, inquired of a repre- sentative of the Crystal Water com pany what the company's income is annually from the service is furnishes to its subscribers in that town. One of these assessors stated OH Thursday that he did not get the information he was after as the result Of the inter- view with the water company repre- sentative, so he said nothing at the time. but an idea formulated in his mind.
 That idea was to make a canvass of the West Side and visit every place that buys service from the Crystal Water company, ascertain how much eac hsubscriber pays the company each year and thereby arrive at the eompany's income in that section oi the town of Brooklyn each year. Il meant work for the assessors, but they were bound to get the informa- tion they were after. Now that the work of convassing is completed the Brooklyn assessors believe that they