The Newtown bee., 1893-06-09
HAWLEYVILLE |?

Perhaps, gentle reader, you do not know where Hawleyville is. No? Well, it's your own fault, for she is right where she always has been, 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 land has most Of it been made during the last decade, is a change from the original plan and is made l from banana peels, broken-down hoop skirts, cigar stumps, corks and street sweepings in general. What the Hawleyville land was or fginally made from is q question that has pug zled, mystified 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 indispnted 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 this land has been slowly maturing and SC ettling down to bed so when we speak ot Hawleyville, we always refer to her solid and stable foundations, and not to the temporary destructible structures erected from time Ia 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, Pompeii and Her culaneum, the rlse of Bakers Furniture Busi 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 necticut river shad, would be comparatively fresh entries in her diary, as would also the lite and death struggles of Lydia Pinkham and Julius Cnsar. Ii she could speak she would mention as but the happenings of yesterday the Hood and the wanton destruction ot En- glish taa in Boston harbor. She could have given Adam and Eve valuable pointers on what know about the early days of sue cesstul gardening" and could point to the
 time when the running of railroad trains was
 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 thesexame grounds. and
 e tysnn hrin1 fla nf 4JaI
 heavenward from among her stately forest
 trees. The great frog and tadpole pond north
 of Hawleyyille was undoubtedly the hallway supply station on the main trail between the fertile clam banks of Long Island sound and the great muskrat hatcheries of the North.
 When the foundations ot Hawleyville were laid, Mark Anthony had never heard of Cleo patra, and George Washington had never been called upon to choose between a lie and a vol loping, and so on ad-infinitum. We claim for
 Hawleyyille an antiquity deserving Of public acknowledgement ant recognition. That she
 will become famous some day is beyond
 question. The two great and growing indus tries of the place now are Bakers furniture
 business and the eauallS Successful pollywa9 hatcheries in the great north frog ponds
 Bakers furniture establishment is now so well known from one side of the state to the oth- CT that it needs no mention, but the poilywog hatcherieS are really wonderful. They are
 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 Hawleyville seems to be just right tor the successful birth and
 propagation ot pollywogs. The layers are wonderfully productive, and we venture to say that one tull grown native layer can, when she feels like it, lay eggs enough in one night to almost stop navigation in any slug
 gish or tidewater stream of onfy few fath- oms debth, and we can produce polIywogs enough in one good warm July week to stock fairly well every river, frrigatimg ditch and laguna in the great state of Texas. We will tell you more Of Hawleyyille anon, but we are too busy to write often. Call and see us when you visit Hawleyville.
 4. c. BAKER,
 New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Union
 Depot. Hawleyville, Conn.