The Irish standard., 1919-07-19
News from Ireland

Youghal Guardians granted a retro.
spective increment of ga a year to the
medical officers of the Union, resulting
as follows: DR.. Curran, Killeagh,
$3.50 (maximum); DIR. Murphy, Yough-
al, s22S; DR.. Lynch, Cashmere, s2s9;
DR.. Foley, Ardmore, s209; DR.. Kenne.
dy, workhouse, s150.
Attention was directed by Alderman
Kelleher at Cork Corporation to the
condition of political prisoners in Cork
jail, which, he said, was grave. Sever
al were i'll in hospital and others were
undergoing solitary confinement. The
Lord Mayor said 1t was not in keeping
with the spirit of the times to have
their fellow-countrymen interned in
jails throughout the country. 1t was
deplorable that the Government would
not see its way to exercise the spirit
of peace that was supposed to pervade
the world just now.
Demobilized soldiers in Athy who
have already drawn 26 weeks unem-
ployment benefit have been notified
that their out-of-work donation at a re-
duced payment of Y e can be extend
ed for further Is weeks by filling in
forms showing that they have genuine
ly sought work and failed to obtain it.
Most of the drapery houses in Athy
were closed on Whit Monday.
Athy met Kilrush in the first round
of the South Kildare junior football
championship. The match was played
at Kilkea, and resulted in an easy win
for Athy, who, by the way, were run
ners-up for the championship last year.
The field was not very suitable for the
match, but of course at this time of
the year it is extremely difficult to get
a field where the grass is not high.
F., Potatoes excepted, there was only a
small supply of all classes of produce
and commodities at the weekly market
in Athy. Eggs we're Is. Sd. per dozen;
butter, 2s. Sd. per pound; potatoes, Sd.
and Cd. per stone; hay, SO per ton,
and oats, 3Os. per barrel. Last week
eggs were %.
County Louth Feis took place at
Ardee on July 6. The event had been
originally announced for June %, but
as this date was found to be the fixture
of Feis aMidhe at Navan, a post
ponement was made to the following
Sunday. A competition for Pipers'
Bands was added to the program and
this provided display of the progress
made by the different bands. of Louth
and the adjoining counties.
The death has occurred of Mr.. Pat
rick Mcdonnell, rate collector, brother
of Rev. r. Mcdonnell, &C., Ravens
dale, and of DR.. Mcdonnell, Dundalk.
The house famine is so severe In
Dundalk that Judge Green, K.C., adj
iourned a number of cases in which
landlords sought possession of houses
for the purpose of accommodating
members of their own families. Will
liam Regan said that his family and
that of his son were living in a four.
room house. Mr.. Connolly-a law
clerk said he was compelled to take
lodgings while his wife lived IA miles
away in Newry, and for two months
he had been on the" hunt for a house
of any description.
| A correspondent states that the po
lice raided the houses Of Messrs. r
Gogarty, stonecutter, Drogheda, and
Gogan, farmer, Donore, and also the
house of Mr.. Lenahan, Rossnaree.
The chairman (Mr. John McEvoy, j
P.) presided at the ordinary meeting
of the Mountmellick Board of Guard
ians.
The l.. G. Board notified their sane
tion of the appointment of DIR. Thomas
IL. Higgins, junior, as medical officer
of the MARLBORO Dispensary District
at a salary of e150 year.
! Mr.. R. Bannan, R.O., reported that
owing to DR.. Higgins being arrested
on Friday, June 6, he had to appoint
DR.. Higgins, senior, to take up duty at
the Maryboro' Dispensary at the usual
remuneration, pending the meeting OF
the board.
Il The following letter was read from
DIR. Higgins, junior: "Kildare, June
6, 1919. Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen
~ will be away for one month, so
would respectfully ask you to grant me