THE TUAM HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1909 TUAM, CO GALWAY DIED STEPHENS - At her residence, Ballinderry, Parish of Cummer, on the 9th inst. Mrs. Stephens, relict of the late Mr. Michl. Stephens, and mother of Mr. John Stephens, of same place, deeply lamented by all her friends and neighbours. The remains were buried at Kilmoylan on the 11th. The funeral was large and representative. - R.I.P. MURPHY - On May 9th, Mr. Martin Murphy, of Curry, Parish of Cummer, after a very brief illness, leaving a widow and a number of children to mourn his loss. Burial attended by an unusually large funeral, took place at Cummer on Tuesday last. - R.I.P. ---------- PITHY PARS, - Personal, Parochial Provincial and Particular ---------- Mr. C. Mulvany, Co. Surveyor, told Castlerea District C___en that he was about to introduce the steam-rolling system into Castlerea and Roscommon. In reply to a Councilor, he said that it would not incur any extra expense on the rates. When shall it commence in Galway? ---------- Owing to the gates having been shut up, fishing on the Claregalway river has been satisfactory so far as the season has gone. Eleven spring fish have been killed by members, the largest about 23 lbs., being secured by Mr. R. Joyce. --------- The Recorder of Galway has adjourned to next sessions the consideration or the application by the father of the murdered constable Goldrick for £2,000 compensation for the loss of his son, stating that it would be desirable first to dispose of the capital charge brought against the two men named Michael Dermody and Thomas Hynes at Galway assizes. ---------- In Castlebar the new Technical Schools are fast nearing completion, and prizes continue to pour in for the bazaar to be held in aid of the new buildings. The project is a very deserving one, and will receive a large amount of support. ---------- We regret to announce the death of Mr. James J. Noone, Mount street, Claremorris, which occurred at his residence. The deceased some time ago contracted a severe cold, which developed into consumption, and when the first symptoms of the dread scourge made their appearance all available precautions were taken to save the young life, and Mr. Noone was sent to a sanatorium for treatment. ---------- Owing to the inclement weather of the first week of May mackerel fishing, which had promised such good results, has been entirely suspended. A week's enforced idleness at this time is a serious loss, not only to fishermen, but to numerous hands who await employment at packing, carrying, salting, &c. ---------- The marriage arranged between Michael P. Harding, National Bank, Roscommon, son of the late George Harding, Charleville, and Mary Bourke Wright, daughter of the late Rev. Canon W. Bourke Wright, M.A., of Athleague Vicarage, and granddaughter of the late General John Wray Mitchell, R.A., of Castlestrange, Co Roscommon, will take place in September. ---------- Mr. William Gladstone of Hawarden, who recently joined the Lord Lieutenant's Secretarial Staff, recently visited the West. He toured through the Congested Districts Board, who has done so much to promote industries suitable to, the congested districts, especially through the medium of lace and crochet classes. The tour included a visit to Benada Abbey, where a most successful lace industry is established, and to the woollen mills at Foxlord, where for 18 years past a successful woollen industry has been carried on. A number of centres where nurses working under Lady Dudley's scheme in connection with the Jubilee Institute are stationed were visited. The Aran Islands and other Islands were visited on the coast and villages in remote districts were also visited. ---------- The Spring mackerel fishery has already began along the Connemara seaboard. On Tuesday. 2th April, the take in Cleggan amounted to some seventy boxes of mackerel. Prices ranged from 8s, 6d to 11s per 126 fishes. The number of fishing nobbeys(?) falls short in the latter place of what one was wont to see yearly since its inception. This is owing to the fact that they are withdrawn to Roundstone and Bunowen. ---------- Jim McNamara British Isles Family History Society - USA, Newsletter Editor http://www.rootsweb.com/~bifhsusa