The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-06-12
as mark of respect to the memory OF

]. Kenny & Sons, builders, for extern
sions to the Catholic Church and NOR.
tuary at e2.727. An application from
MIR. E. Barry, meat contractor to the
asylum, for e289 lis. owing to loss on
the increased prices during the war,
was referred to a special committee.
On the suggestion of Mr.. p. j. O'Sul-
Ivan, solicitor, it was agreed to deal
with contractors in future according
to their invoices.
The second of seres of national
schools has been opened at Drom-
trasna, Abbeyfeale, and cost s1,1OO.
A vote of thanks was passed to the
Very Rev. Canon Lee, P. p, who Of
ficiated at the opening ceremony, for
his efforts in promoting their erection.
Monaghan.
Counsel has advised the Monaghan
County Solicitor to the effect that pro-
ceedings could be taken before the
Railway Commission, with view to
having the train service to Dublin on
the Great Northern Railway line re-
stored.
The means by which the over-crowd-
ing at Monaghan Asylum is to be re-
lieved has not yet been settled. An
important letter from the local gov
eminent board was read at a meet
ing of the asylum board, over which
his Lordship, Most Rev. DR.. McKenna,
bishop of Clogher, presided.
Mayo.
Ballinrobe District Council has
adopted resolution of regret at the
death of Col. Blake. c. B., who was
for many years chairman of the Dis
trict Council and Board of Guardians.
Claremorris has lost by death two
most respectable citizens in Messrs. M.
Gilligan and F. Clarke, Ardroe. The
former conducted flourishing coach
factory, and Mr.. Clarke was a success
full breeder and exhibitor of farm
stock.
An outbreak of typhus fever has &C.
Cured in the Cappaduff district Balm
robe Union, necessitating the removed
to the fever hospital of fourteen cases
and involving so far two deaths.
Meath.
The death occurred recently of Mr..
James Murphy, Grange-Trevitt, Dun
shaughlin, large farmer and re-
spected resident OF that part of the
County Meath.
Queens.
At the Mounmellick School Attend,
ance Committee, the Rev. P. Dummy,
P. p, in the chair; the Rev. M. Lalor,
PIP; Rev. w. Tanning, &C.; and Rev.
G. j. Wilson, MA, being also present,
proceedings for noncompliance with
school attendance orders were author
lied against Patrick Cahill, Ballycul-
lenbeg; Daniel Reddin, Townparks;
Patrick Dunno, Cordially, and John
Cox, Nutgrove, Rosenallis.
Roscommon.
At Boyle Petty 4, Seasons, Robert
Graham, of Ardsallagh, Boyle, was
fined G1, at the suit of the Tough
Cara Drainage Board, for causing an
obstruction in Boyle River by erect
ing an eel-weir at a place called
Tinnecarra.
When the Ballymena resolution ask
ing for the prohibition of the liquor
traffic was marked Read" at Castle.
rea Board of Guardians, the chairman
said the distilling and brewing indus
tries were two great evils" that could
be very we'll done without, and that
the making of that stuff was one of
the things Ireland will have to answer
for on the Day of Judgment"
Sligo.
The prices at the last Ballymote
market were: Potatoes from As. Cd.
to As. Cd. per cwt.; eggs, 9s. per 1870;
hay, As. to As. Cd. per cwt.; oats, Is.
I'd. per stone.
The annual procession in honor of
the Blessed Virgin took place after
last Mass in Gurteen on Sunday,
May Is.
The death of Mrs. Martin Gallagher
Ballinlag, Bunninadden, County Sligo,
occurred recently at her husbands
residence.
Tyrone.
BY "a votes to 10 the Strabane Guar
dams have adopted committee re-
port recommending that the salaries
of all medical officers should start at
e140, and be increased by s10 every
five years until maximum of ESQ
was reached-these increases to be
Retrospective in the case of the medi-
cal officers at present employed.
His Eminence Cardinal Logue ad-
ministered the Sacrament of Confir-
nation to large number of children
in the new Pomeroy Parish Church,
which has been just completed. His
Emirence congratulated the parish
Priest.
Tipperary.
Tipperary Petty Sessions Court
fined the following traders for failing
to sell bread by weight: Mrs. M.
Warnane, Kate Hogan, Bridget Ho-
gan, Margaret Tobin, Margaret Bar.
low, Margaret McGrath and Bridget