Overview

Joe Bagley runs a down-at-the-heel drygoods store. He wants to be an editor. Kenneth Dodge arrives from the big city to become editor of The Observer. But he really wants to be in the drygoods business. The boys decide to swap jobs, though each pretends to be working at his own. Meantime each does the other's job with great success. Due to the editorials in The Observer, the town boss is exposed and a meeting begins to gather, at which Dodge is forced to explain his charges. But he gets out of it by claiming that he is in the drygoods business, and Bagley has to explain. A novel and dramatic scene. It is hardly necessary to add that two sentimental romances thread their way through the play.