Middletown transcript., 1918-05-04


10 attempt again to buy wheat without
cereal.
Baltimore.-State sweepstakes of
$500 and $500 together with 400 coun-
ty prizes are offered by the Maryland
Food Administration for the best
yielding war gardens above and below
one-haf acre devoted to seven staple
vegetables. For high yield and big
gest percentage of acreage in 1919.
Wheat awards totaling $4,000 are an
nounced, while $1,750 from the same
private donation is distributed in
three prizes among the corn growers
of the State.
Cambridge. - Worthington Colds
borough, father of former Governor
Phillips Lee Goldsborough, of Balti-
more, and DR.. Brice W. Goldsborough,
of Cambridge, died at his residence
here after long illness. His wife
died three years ago, shortly after the
return of Governor Goldsborough from
the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San
Francisco. Mr.. Goldsborough was
retired pay director in the United
States Navy, having been retired DC.
tober 9, 1896.
Ruxton.-The postoffice here was
entered and robbed. The exact ex-
tent of the loss is not yet known, as
the postoffice authorities have not
completed their investigation. George
E. Fishpaw, the Postmaster, said,
however, that he was certain several
registere letters had been stolen.
The intruder also made away with a
number of articles in the store in
which the Office is situated and broke
open and rifled a slot machine
Baltimore.-A private donation has
enabled the Maryland Food Admin
istration to offer $4,000 in prizes for
the stimulation of wheat-growing and
$1,75O for corn. Half the $4,000 fund
goes FOR war gardens containing seven
named staple vegetables. With 46:
prizes distributed for the best aver
age truck fields, competition on thrift
plots of over 5000 square yards is ex-
pected to add s5,O00,OO0 worth to the
food supply in this State.
Cambridge.-After being reported
as one of the II men rescued from
the American steamship Lake Moor,
which was sunk in European waters
on her maiden voyage by a German
submarine on the night of April IL,
Roscoe Conkling Leonard. of this
town, coxswain of the freighter, is
reported to have died from exposure.
was received by his par
ents, Captain and Mrs. Ivy L. Leonard.
from the Navy Department.
Baltimore.-If the efforts of Con-
gresham Syndey E. Mudd to raise
$125,O0O with which to take over the
abandoned railroad from Brandywine
to Mechanicsville are successful
Southern Maryland not only will not
lose the only railroad in that section,
but will see it extended to Solomons
Island and become the outlet for one
of the largest producing and shipping
sections of the State.
Annapolis. - Governor Harrington
granted paroles to three prisoners
serving terms in the penitentiary. The
papers were given at once to Chief
Parole Officer Thomas Campbell and
the men were released at II o'clock.
They are Ovid Shaw, of Charles coun.
ty: Ernest Barrett, of Prince Georges
county. and Nicolas Williams, colored,
of Baltimore county.
Pikesville.-Sewell S. Watts was
the principal speaker at the patriotic
held at Pikesville, when
the first Liberty Loan honor flag won
by Maryland town was hoisted over
the Pikesville National Bank. Pixies
vile has more than doubled its quota
of subscriptions and will also have
gold star in the flag.
Annapolis.-1f Governor Harrington
approves, the probabilities are that
convict labor will be extensively used
on road work during this and succeed
ing years. Chairman Zouck of the
State Roads Commission believes con-