Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-03-22
IRELAND.
Record Of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events Culled
From Exchanges.

Ballina Urban Council has accepted !
the tender OF Isaac Beckett for the
erection OF forty-four workers dwell
ings.
The new ferro-concrete bridge, |
which spans the River SUR at Water
ford. has been opened for public J
traffic.
The County Sligo Committee of
Agriculture and Technical Instruc-
tion has appointed J. J. Clancy as It's
Secretary.
d. ]. Crosbie, on behalf Of Lord
Listowel, has promised a grant of
$1,000 toward the cost OF the Lis
towel sewerage scheme.
Patrick Bailin, aged seventy-three,
OF Townparks, Ardee, dropped dead
on the roadside while on his way to
draw his old age pension.
Mrs. Thomas Bohan, wife of
farmer, was killed by being thrown
from a pony and trap while driving
at Ballingaddy, near Kilmallock.
The Bagenalstown Town Tenants
League branch again asked the Town
Commissioners to deal with the pro-
posal for a scheme OF cottages in the
town.
At a meeting of the Cavan branch
OF the Town Tenants League d.
Reilly was reelected Chairman, A.
McEntee Vice Chairman and P.
Smith Secretary.
At Carrickfergus Mrs. Ellen Nc
Larnon was found dead at her res
idence. She was about seventy years
of age, lived alone, and was not un-
der medical care.
The announcement of the appoint
ment of Rev. NJ. Colleran to the
pastoral charge of Achill has given
much satisfaction to his many friends
in the diocese Of Tuam.
The Celbridge Guardians, Justice
Field presiding, unanimously adopted
the resolution of the Irish Industrial
Development Association calling for
support for the Irish flour milling
industry
J. Finnegan, Clerk of Abbeyleix
Union and Rural District Council, re-
Gently completed his fifty-seventh
year as Union Clerk and he and Mrs.
Finnegan celebrated their golden
wedding.
Owing to the increase in the Shan
non floods, the water reached the
ancient burial place at Clonmacnoise,
and funerals from the Kings county
direction had to travel through miles
of water.
The Committee of Management of
Ballinasloe Asylum has under consid-
GRAFTON a report by the Resident
Medical Superintendent that the in
stitution was overcrowded to the ex-
tent of 247 patients.
At a meeting of the Athlone Town
Council an application was received
from the Gaelic League to have the
street names put up in Irish. This
matter has been before the Town
Council for some time.
The dead body of Timothy Geary,
aged thirty-nine, of Ballyspillane,
was found in a stream near the Castle
| at Sahfrmure, two miles from Msfidie=
ton. The man had been missing
from home for some time past.
Out of fifteen applicants the En-
niscorthy Rural School Attendance
Committee have appointed Miss Anas-
tasia Kelly, of Enniscorthy, School
Attendance Officer for the portion of
the district at the western side of the
Slaney.
The members of the Third Order
of st. Francis, Waterford, have de-
clded to perpetuate the memory of
the late Rev. c. F. Begley, o. F. NJ.
by the erection of a marble pulpit in
the Franciscan church, with which
Father Begley was connected for a
long number of years.
A farmer named Thomas Maher, of
Castletown, near Thurles, was thrown
from his car on his horse boiling,
and received such severe injuries
that he succumbed shortly after. A
few years ago at the same place a
land steward named Thomas Han
non met his death in a similar man
/ uer
The people of Clonmel and district
sincerely regret the death of David
Kelly, One of the leading diapers of
that town. A native of Aherlow, he
went to Clonmel about thirty years
aGo when boy, and some years ago
took over the extensive business
built up by his uncle, the late Tim
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