The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-01-05
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II. ]. Golf & Co. have sold Bally-
brophy House and lands to Daniel
| Kennedy, Co. c., Abbeyleiz, for 1000
pounds.
John Hickey, who pleaded guilty at
the Leinster Winter Assizes, to break
ing three plate glass windows, value
| 10 pounds, in the premises of F..
OConnor, Main street, Wexford, was
sentenced to IL months.
Sergeant Milney, Rathdowney, who
| has won the V. c., is to receive
presentation towards which 80 pounds
has been collected on his home-com-
| ing.
The students of st. Peters College,
| Wexford, have founded st. Adams
League for the fostering of the Irish
language and literature. Two hun
dred members, including many of the
diocesan clergy, were enrolled at the
initial meeting, when Rev. w. Han
lon, president Of the college, was elect
ed president. Addresses were deliv-
cred by Rev. Organ, B. D., and Rev.
Mark O'Byrne, G. c., Wexford. Castle
bridge (Co. WexforO Gaelic League
have elected Very Rev. Canon Quig-
ley, p. p, president of the branch, and
Rev. A. O'Brien, G. c., vice-president.
Blackwater men resident in WeN-
ford, p. Breen, presiding, passed a
resolution congratulating Rev. W..
Codd, P. p, on his elevation to the
l1piscopacy.
County Wexford National Teachers
Association, meeting in Enniscorthy,
condemned sectional unions OF teach
ers which are not sanctioned by the
G. e. C. or by Congress, and called for
their dissolution. Mr.. Fl. O'Byrne,
chairman, said the manner in which
teachers were treated by the Govern
ment had driven many of them crazy
and to the last resort of the strike.
Practitioners of the late Canon Pur-
cell, p. P, decided to erect to his
memory the High Altar at Piltown
New Church, and opened subscrip-
tiolfs
]. b. Carr brother of T. M. Carr,
Maynooth, has been gaZetted Second
Lieutenant. Mr.. Carr has seen service
in France, with the Bluffs, and was
twice wounded. His sister, Miss M.
Carr, has been war nursing since the
outbreak of hostilities. and is at pres
ent in Cairo.
Christopher Hayde was sentenced to
three months Imprisonment by Ennis
kerry Petty Sessions Court on plead
ing guilty to the larceny of a Win
chester repeating rifle, the property of
Lord Powerscourt, by whom he was
employed, as foreman gardener. Rob-
ert Wilson, his lordship's hall porter,
deposed to defendant taking the rifle
from a glass case. Accused said he
had had the weapon out before and
returned it. Other witnesses in the
case were John Sherwood, Lord Pow
erscourt's butler, and Const. Clarke,
| Enniskerry.
To recover 40 pounds, rs. for the
keeping and for the training of the
race horse Farimore, Algernon An
thony. Westerna. Kildare, was granted
leave by the Kings Bench to issue
and serve writ out of the jurisdic-
ton OH Fl. J. Goldenberg, London. Mr.
McGrath was for the plaintiff.
Being of opinion that the magis-
trates should have convicted the de-
PENDANT of having committed the Of
tense, the Kings Bench sent back for
rehearing summons by the Depart
ment against John Swift, Keeltown,
for failing to cut down thistles and
noxious weeds on his lands. The Null
lingar magistrates held that it was
physically impossible for the depend
ant, with the means at his disposal,
and the area to be covered, to carry
out the work. Sergeant Insolvency.
for the Department.
A settlement having been reached
by which the defendant, Mrs. Ellis,
was to receive Is pounds for costs in
addition to 100 pounds legacy, the will
of the late William Murphy, bache-
lor, who farmed 100 acres at Patritine,
County Carlow, leaving the plaintiff,
Mrs Smith, his principal beneficiary,
was admitted to probate by Mr.. JUS
tice Gordon.
Miss A. M. Walsh, technical instruc-
tress, Wicklow, was the recipient of
dinner service of solid silver from
local committee as a mark of appre-
citation of her services, and of good
wishes on her approaching marriage
to Bank official.
Rev. NJ. O'Brien, Kill, was elected
president, Rev. J. James, Hoyvalley,
and Mr. A. O'Connor, B. E., V. P.'s, T.
Harris, Prosperous, and P. Dunno.
Kill, treasurers, and M. MacGabhan,
Athgarvan and o. Williams, Mas.
secretaries of the N Kildare Sim Fem
Executive.
P. P. Doyle, u D. c., Athy, presided
at meeting at Ballyadams, at which
the action was condemned of Rev.
John Butler, rector of Thomastown, in
privately buying for, it is said, 5000
as against 1000 pounds bid I'm court
by Athy R. D. c., and which was con-
sidered insufficient, a farm of 400
acres there. Mr.. l.. Ginnell, NJ. p,
l..