Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-10
Any Other Name
Than Plain Rose


Ashburton from Homeburg How
are you, anyway? Say. it's great to
see somebody from the old town.
I haven't had a chance to run up
there for several years. How's all
the old gang. anyway? Is Tom Nc
NCarty still foreman down at the
pickle factory
well, he doesn't exactly describe
it that way. Mr.. Thomas McCarty
is director of personnel for the
Homebufg Condiment and Relish
Works, Inc"
80 that's what he calls it?
What's that old saying about a rose
by any other name? It's funny
how people go in for high sounding
titles nowadays. You know Rollins
and Jamison, who used to be ad-
vertising statesmen apd space BUY
ers for the advertising agent back
home, are working for purveyor
OF ideas down here; same work, but
they are known respectively as &C
count executive and audience buy
err"
Eyes, l know about them. They
have been trying to get Jimmie
Barnes, the artist to come down
here and take job as visualizer."
Say, we used to have great times
playing Kelly pool in Red Willard s
pool hall. didn't WEI"
Hes changed the name to Mil
lards Recreational Parlors, now.
BY the way, his little freckle- faced
! sister has grown up, and now con-
ducts the Powder Puff Beauty
i Salon.
'Remember the quartet that used
TO practice in Millards piace-a
barber. a plumber, paper hanger
I and an undertaken? Some colnplna-
ton, wasn't it?"
"They don't sing so much any
more. 1t keeps them pretty busy
( attending to their work as tom
( sorialist, sanitary engineer, interior
decorator and mortician."
/ What was that soda squirt s
name down at the candy store that
used to hand out the soda pop"
! ION. you mean Hal Chandler. He
| resigned his position as soda dis
! penser at the confectionists and
! instead of selling carbonated bev-
/ erages has become one of the city $
| foremost restaurateurs. He bought
! the lunch room, fired the COOK
hired a culinary engineer, and now
! calls the place The Coffee Shoppe.'
But Charlie Williams still gets
| the slop and feeds it to his hogs,
doesn't he?"
Not personally. Since he or
ganize1 the Homeburg Dispose
j Company he has employed several
! REFUSE collectors. The hog feed
I ing is taken care of by a subsidi-
arv concern, the Porcine Products
: Corporation. Charlie doesn't have
time to argue any more with old
Nose, the whitewasher, and I guess
Nose. as our foremost kalsomining
engineer. keeps quite busy, too.
| Does your father still repair
! furniture at his secondhand store?
| "He continues in the used furnl-
ture business, but has employed a
man to do the reconditioninS.
"Well, old man, I'm mighty glad
to hear that everything in Home
burg is on the up and up.
YES. everyone seems to be do
ing quite well. How are you get
ting along since you quit writing
for the Homeburg Tribune ana
came down here? Understand you
are press agent for one OF the rail-
roads,
"Oh. why, I am director of pub
lie relations for the Santabash
Railroad, yes. BY the way, you
used to make quite a bit of side
money writing advertisements for
different concerns in Homeburg.
Are you keeping that up?"
Eyes. I got enough of those part
time customers lined up so that L
could quit the advertising depart
ment of the Tribune. My card;
a William Thomas Ashburton =,
Consulting Advertising Engineer.
John Edward Hicks in PRINTERS
| Ink.