The Newtown bee., 1893-07-07
HAWLEYVILLE !?

Perhaps gentle reader, you do not know where Hawleyville is. No? Well, lt's your own fault, for she is right where she always has beea, and has never tried to Skulk nor hide herself. Hawleyville is built on one Of the oldest and ripest sections of land in North America It is built on what is known as made land, so is a portion of Chicago, the only difference being that Chicago lana has most oI it been made during the last decade, IS a change from the original plan and is made from banana peels, broken-down hoop skirts, cigar stumps, corks, and street sWeep1ngs In general. What the HawleyVille land was or iginally made from is question that has pug zled, nlystified and paralyZed the minds ot theolOgical and geological students and deep thinkers in general for ages, but unlike the Chicago land, it seems to be an indisputed fact that it was made during the same week and from the same material that the celebrated and seemingly indestructible great Rocky mountain ranges were, and thls Iand has been slowly maturing and ettling down to bed rock and a solid basis for thousands Of years, so when speak of Hawleyyille, we always refer to her solid and stable foundations and not to the temporary destructible structures erected from time a time above them. Just think what has transpired in the world around since the foundations ot Hawleyville were laid. She ante-dates the Pyramids ot Egypt and the great Chinese wall, Pompe!l ana Her culaneum, the rise of Bakers Furniture BuS1
 ness and the tall Ot the Roman empire, Bel shazzar's feast and the hand writing on the wall, the birth of Columbus and the first Con- neoticut river shad, would be comparatively fresh entries in her diary, as would also the lite and death struggles of Lydia Pinkham and Julius CBsar. If she could speak she would mention as but the happenings Of yesterday the hood and the wanton destruction Of En- glish toa in Boston harbor. She could have given Adam and Eve valuable pointers ''what l know about the early days Of sue cessful gardening" and could polnt 10 the even more detrimental to the interests of the
 travelling public than is the present schedule on the Berkshire Division. The noble red men of the forest shot down the bison and the
 bear, built their council fires and signal
 mokes, jerked their venison and roasted the
 pale faced captive on these same grounds, and
 the smoke from hundreds ot tepees curled heaYenward from among her stately forest trees. The great frog and tadpole pond north
 of HawleyvflIe was Undoubtedly the halfway supply station on the main trail between the fertile clam banks ot Long Island sound aud the great muskrat hatcheries of the North. When the foundations Of Hawleyvllle were laid Mark Anthony had never heard of Cleo patra, and George Washington had never been called upon to choose between lie and vol | loping, and so on ad-infiEitum. We claim tor | Hawleyville antiquity deserving ot public acknowledgement and recognition. That she | will become famous some day IS beyond
 question. The two great aud growing indus | tries of the place now are Bakers furniture | business and the equally successful pollywog l hatcheries in the great north frog ponds, | Bakers furniture establishments is now so well 1 known from one side of the state to the oth- l CT that it needs no mention, but the poilyWog located near the shepaug car shops and em- | brace some three acres of land and water and
 muskrat-built islands. The nutritious quail
 ties of the water, it's temperature, the altitude | and everything else here at HawleyV1lle seems | to be just right for the successful birth and
 propagation ot pollywogs. The layers are
 wonderfully productive, and we venture to
 say that one full grown native layer can
 when she feels like it, lay eggs enough in one night to almost stop navigation in any slug l gish or tidewatef stream of onfy a few fath | oms' debth and we produce pollywogs enough in one good warm July week to stock 1 fairly well every river, irrigating ditch and | laguna in the great state of Texas. We will tell you more of Hawleyville anon, but we arc too busy to write often. Call and see us when
 you visit Hawleyville.
 A. c. BAKER,
 New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Unior | Depot Hawleyville. Conn.