Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1917-11-29
WHATS III A NAME.
ny VINCENT {. PERRY.

- 80 80 NhputA ~ SiiIuIt bIe UtNf-
paper, and here Il was with two. Fred
burnett. proprietor, managing editor
pressman and compdsitor Of the
WattsviiIe Advance, walked no and
down the little poOm In front Of his
plant which BE- called tho Office. afa
BIT at d march fuSiously. wattsvliio
HID been without a paper for lone
time, aud the idea Of starting up
weekly again was originally his iig
vas sure Of that. He had come from
ME city and looked over the plant %
fhe Echo, paper that had not besa
Published FOR ten yoaYs, hnA ls:la q
Iclded Il wasn't Ia good enough shane
70 put IN working order Not 10 81
beaten IN his effort to sake himself
reciuse from HIS ffieads, liz bouehf
out the plant Of the Wainwright IA
vance and moved II 70 wntfsvIfe to
the little building II now occupied. In
the meantime the Echo Office had been
sold BY real estate broker IN the city
and the purchaser. ~ho had bought the
plant was woman, the niece Of tie
Widow spur. Of the village.
The idea Of the thing was prepoa.
terons, ne Thought Nobody could
mako the Echo plant work. let aiene
woman.
Poor thing III she does know any.
thing about newspaper work she WIN
get shock when she sees the Emo
plant be muttered4
lie was right. Margaret spur did
ret severe shock when she saw the
Echo plant. The rial estate broker
had told her Il wns 10 splendid work
lng order, and her aunt had verified
his statement, She was foolish 10
take the word ~ either. she thought
n Margaret Ind belonged to another
profession she would have went. but
her newspaper training had fortified
her for just such disspp0intments as
this onc. Perhaps the plant wasn't
90 bad rs Il appeared, che thonrtit IS
she started 70 act shlnes ia belter
shnpe. As sho worked oyer the tyue
ctlses her mind went hack 70 the elty
and the life she had left
Il was 10 end an occupation 10 take
her mind off che hlegest dlsappalni.
ncnt Of her life thM made lar Give
NJ her position on tie Times III ghe
city and Invest hor savings Ia thc com.
Try ncwspapeF that uruvcd 10 b. 70
uapromiAing The piniar before eha
Ind been introduced 10 Tommy Mckay
~ the Ir0nworkeff convention. ia
eHs representing che Teibaue and she
WIS repostins the coaspttlon FOR she
Tlmes. Tommy haH fstasaut aas
attractive waN and IS they sat sida
~ dee eilatfng Eallg. she euBldat
islB shlnk.us thht perhaps "a lha Girls
iisat mrntg 80 her adsicago ghe tair
fex. ct'gualn were Nel a. siiy rs she
haa thought The H ~ she misssd
her car and was late Tommy len,
her hia notes, W that she would aai
saiss the ssnportnnf points ~ thn
mayors fpsech. After That klniluesa
she ep6ldNg very well have refused bis
Invitation 20 the ihcater ttat evening.
After the fhater they went 10 4
cabaret lie Nas ihe brightest boy sha
had ever an8en. and bis seuse 81 hn.
mer appealed 70 her.
rbu next summer they hhd their va.
saiion ~ The same time. shey me,
again ai seaside resort. The moon.
light nights helped Ion ana before
they hud been there n fortnight they
bad decided That they couldn't very
wei get along wl,hout ose another.
Their happiness WAS brought 10 ga
abrupt ending when Tommy was sent
Tor 90 fake . position ha had applied
for Ia the North.
Margaret couldn't help running thla
ail over IN her mind as she worked.
The etiliaF ~ tho Advnnee stopped
10 front u the Echo office, n wouidn',
be out q place 20 cnll on this susa
Spur lie could had out what she
thought 81 tlle Echo plant
Aargnrei beard the step lf-the donr.
way sua turned around. AZ her eyes
met the visitors, elic uttered litna
scream and her handful Of type fell
80 The door.
Tommy" she gasped. 'srommy
Mckay
"Norna what are you doing hereY'
he cried In surprise.
"Why, In Tic owner OF this plant.
Margaret Spur
"You. Margaret sppr2 Isn't Norma
Cousins .yonr right uame7 Why didn't
gou answer my letters2"
''Your letters. Tommy / never re-
celyed them.r Norma was excited
TEL me It'd you address them Ia
Norma CouslnsT'
Eyes; thought that was your real
name"
1T ~ only my pen name, the name
under which ! wrote FOR the Times.
no think never told you my right
name But didn't yon get my letters
Tommyfn
No. not a letter. Then II lawned
upon him. "DId you know my right
name isn't Tommy Mckay; that that
Is only pen name, toog My right
NAME Is Fred Burnett"
So that there would be no more INK.
ups Ia names. tho irst issue 81 the
Echo-Adyanee had printed at the tor
Of the editorial column IN bold type
~'Fred Burnett, managing editor; Mrs
Fred Burnett news editor"
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