' f to " hi i PAGE 6 OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920r i, , ,, . v H Iff t 1 ! " I. If II I. ' - I II 1 t f j - t i mr 'l.-.V.ii-iS''!:- mm mm f i :lf II..? , II V V ''ii '! il mm mm Ili! if !v.k4:.''.:rJ . .1 . 1 I : 4- z-'i i . . .- - '.'1 'I i i-y . a 1 1 ;,'".s.u.;-; WILSON FARMER GETS SHAVE IN CROWDED SHOP Saturday afternoon a farmer en tered a Wilson barber shop and on taking in the situation found all of the chairs full ajid a long line wait ing for the tonsorial artist to call "next." Seeing no chance for a quick "scrape" and having a long way to go he resorted to strategy. Placing his hands on his hips he shambled up and down the shop mut tering: "This flu will kill me yet; I should have taken my wife's advice and remained in bed longer." Then rapidly he sneezed, three times kermhew! Kerchoo! ! Ker-che-ah-h!!! The crowd rushed out and four chairs were emptied of men "half raked over." Turning to the few who remained he remarked: "Gentlemen, I am thankful to say that neither myself or family have had the dread malady." W. M. Peterson, of Clinton, N C-, is the winner of a bronze medal and a prize of $250 for producing the third largest yield of cotton in the United States during 1919. I 1 m H 1 m I I m III Takes the guess out of Baiting - saves you money You can't buy baking-powder, soda and salt as economically as when you buy them already mixed in Occo-nee-chee Self Rising Flour. And the extra in gredients are added in proportions for perfect baking. Hot-cakes, light, golden bis cuits and tempting waffles can be mixed in a few seconds and baked in a few more. Just mix with water or milk and put in the oven. You'll like Occo-nee-chee be cause it's a real time- and trouble- 1 Hi saver. LP NE Self-Rising Flo Takes the Guess out of Baking" and Slaves you Money The Indian Head is an every sack of Occo-nee-chee Self-Rising Flour. Your grocer will tell you a sack today. Ask him. For a good plain Sour, buy Peerless. Austin-Heaton Co. Durham, N. C w mm m wm. m M JUST LEAVE JT TO " TERRY Harvard Authorities and StudnU Rely on Memory of Colored Human Encyclopedia. No one knows how he does it. He doesn't know himself. Yet Terry never forgets a face or a name. He never took a memory course. He never did any special mental gymnastics to de velop his memory. He has no theories on the association of ideas. He has no little tricks, such as remembering a man's name is Carpenter because he is built like a lath. He simply re members, that's all. Terry is a roly-poly little colored man who for 19 years has been the human encyclopedia of the recorder's office at Harvard college. Every Har vard man since 1900 knows Terry. The remarkable thing is that Terry knows every one of them. More than 10,000 men have come and gone in Terry's time. Terry remembers them all. His extraordinary faculty for re membering names and places caused his being installed in the position of living encyclopedia, not only on all Harvard men, but on Harvard history generally. When members of the fac ulty want to know the date of the fire in Weld hall, or when the course Gov ernment 7B was started, or the names of the most recently elected overseers, or the score of the Harvard-Williams baseball game ten years ago, or any miscellaneous bit of Harvardiana they don't take the time to look it up. They ask. Terry. And Terry always knows. Passing of a Pre-War Pet Nowadays, if you decided -to make a present to your youngest nephew, you couldn't find a Japanese waltelng mouse in the country. It Is true that their dervish dance is out of date in this age of shimmy shakers. But that doesn't account for their extinction. The war, which took so many lives, reached even to the mouse world. Breeders no longer raise these eccen tric little creatures, according to Ed Honey, the bird, and fish man. Per haps they still live in Japan, where they arev-kept through Immigration laws. But as far as this country goes, these busy pets of children are now but a memory.- Minneapolis Journal. Gum From Sorghum Husks. French scientists have found that sorghum husks yield a gum which can be used for dyeing wool, silk, leather and vegetable fibers. The possible colors, which are sun-proof and soap proof, are various shades of red and pink, gray and dark brown. SUBSCRIBE TO "17BLIC LEJX5EK LIKE EACH OTHER'S COMPANY Stones Found in Nevada Seem to Have a Distinct Aversion to Being Separated. i In Nevada are found curious min eral specimens known as "sociable stones." No better name could be given them, since when a few are dis tributed over a level floor two or three feet apart they will begin to move toward .one another to a common cen ter with an alacrity that is ludicrous. Campers first noticed these stones. They had used wrapping paper for a tablecloth and weighted the corners with some of the stones spread over the level top of a boulder. A few mo ments later one of the men noticed that the paper was flapping in the breeze and that the four or five stones were huddled in a group in the middle of the paper like a nest full of eggs. He thought the wind was responsible, straightened them and added more stones. The next time he looked around the stones were back in the heap again. Once more he replaced the stones and sat down to watch them. They began to roll and hitch along toward one an other again until they were in a pile. Sri It Helps ! There can be no doubt as to the merit of Cardui, the woman's tonic, in the treatment of many troubles peculiar to women. The thousands of women who have been helped by Cardui in the past 40 years, is conclu sive proof that it is a good medicine for women who suffer. It should .hcQyou, too. 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