The Newtown bee., 1893-07-28
DID YOU EVER

know such commotion among the banks? | Banks private corporate and nallonaI all follow each other ill rapid succession some l banks however, are as solid as the everlasting 1 hills and are conducted with such sagaciOus | foresight that they pass through financial | troubles smoothly us a ship rides an oiled | cellar stairs. Naught short ot an earthquake can shake them. HawleYVile is small burgh and we have but one bank, but it is just this kind of a bank. It is known in business circles as the First SAND Bank of Hawley ville. Thls bank is one of the oldest institu, tions in the land. When Columbus landed she was, and when Barkhamsted was settle she was all the more. The aborig1ne child ren of Columbus time played mumblete,peg in her front yard, yet she was not opened for active business until the building of the New England railroad. The credit of this railroad was then A. l. and the builders made tremen- dous drafts upon this bauk and they were hon. ored for long time without $ single deposit being made. Queer but true. This was not good business policy for the bank and it low cred her standing in the eyes of the general public, (some F 1eet.) During these depres sing times some other most valuable front age was allowed to pass into other hands and Bakers large furniture warerooms now cast 8 black shadow across portion of her front, and ot late the Gospel tent of the"UniOn Evan- gelical Faith Cure," Fourto1d Gospel Christ ian Alliance has been pitched right in front Of her frontest front and the most astounding miracles have been performed within cables length of her terraced foundations. New England's drafts, as said before, were heavy, but the biggest draft, for small one, ever made on her, and one that came near burst
 
 Bakers furniture building were put on. It was contract work and there was sub con- tractor and there were many workmen and artisans to share the respon. sibility. Baker was in Colorado at the time and he could not look after the de- tails. Making bricks without straw was a comparatively easy task to making mor- | tar without lime or cement, but it has been proved to the world that the latter can be done | For proof the patched and mortarless | spots on Bakers ceilings. Howl the Worklnen | finished the job and escaped injury from fall l inc pai1iDoS < what fellow tell. We are desirous of letting the public know who the man IS %ho can aRe axe PFiGkS 4 i2 t wtnoa | long ago but unfortunately property titles have been nicely arranged for coming sea | son of disaster. When we see patch ot plas- | tering fall on fine piece of furniture we feel like the man who said Hanging is too good | for him; he ought to be kicked to death by a | iackass and I'd like to do it.' Ii we can ind out who is responsible for the present condi- tion of our walls (and we think we cam and ii we ever catch that man, and ii we can 1denti fy him, and if he undertakes to crawl through a knot hole, and if he gets stuck when about half way through, and if we have our slippers on, and ii the minister IS not looking, well just warm that man till he can't sit down, foI two moons, without making his feet sore Have you ever had patches of plastering fal all over your house and keep doing 1t? No Well then, my dear friend, your Christian for titude has never been fully tested. You are not ripe for the kingdom yet. We sometimes speak in jest, but never on this subject of pool walls We often get real angry and Mh apuse 51 ou the other day a poor widow woman with blind COW with large family and one horf | broken of, looked at pile of clustering oI the floor and then at the ceiling, and venturet to inquire sympathetically if lightning ha, struck our building. Well now you don know low near came to knocking tha poor woman down the cellar stairs and tellin her to mind her own business; but then W are Jipening fast and grow mild ever day. We can even now wish this man long life and carbuncle every year, and if h should happen to ripen and be plucked frs you may us making an annual pilgrimag
 every Thank sgiving morning to place forge
 me-nots and fresh mortar on his grave.
 In our sane moments we feel deeply gfatt
 ful to generous public for their sympath
 and patronage. They come long distance
 and from all directions to buy furniture of Ii
 They know that we are located away out her
 in bowling wilderness, with tall trees s
 around us and an immense stock of furnituI
 unfortunate with our ceilings and they fe,
 sorry for us and they put their hands ava
 down deep Tn their pockets and they buy Il l erally and they drop q tear now and then; nt
 so many, however, as when they buy
 some other place.
 The preacher tells us we are all poor s1 ners and that this is a wicked, wicked Worl
 but we begin to think there must be a who
 lot of good in it, after all. Come and see Il
 ceilings and we will try and use you we'll al
 inviteiyou into our reading room while wal
 ing tor trains.
 ], A. G, BAKER,
 New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Uni
 Depot, Hawleyville. Conn.