The Newtown bee., 1893-05-12
HAWLEYVILLE ?

Perhaps, gentle read CT, you do not know where HawleyviIle is. No? Well, it's your own fault, for she is right where she always
 has been, and has never tried to Sl1ulk nor
 hide herself. Hawleyville Is built on one of
 the oldest and ripest sections of land in North
 America. It is built what is known as
 made land, so is a portion Ot Chicago, the only difference being that Chicago land baS most of it been made ing the last decade, is a change from the original plan and is made from banana pcels, brOken-down hoop skirts, cigar stumps, cOrks, and street sweepings in general. What the HawleyVille land was or iginally made from is a question that has pug Zled, mystiticd and paralyZed the minds of 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 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 settling down to bed rock and solid basis for thousands of years so when speak Of Hawleyville, we always refer to her solid and stable foundations, and not to the temporary destructble structures erected from time la 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 rise Ot Bakers Furniture Busi ness and the fall of the Roman empire, Bel | shaZzar's feast and the hand writing the | wall, the birth of Columbus and the first Con- | nectcut river shad would be comparatively | fresh entries in her diary, as would also the 1 lite and death struggles of Lydia Pinkham and l Julius Cesar. If she could speak she would l | the flood and the wanton destruction of En- 1 glish t9a in Boston harbOr. She could have | given Adam and Eve valuable pointers ''what know about the early. days Ot sue ccsstul gardening" and could point to the 1 time when the running of railroad trains was even more detrimental to the interests ot 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 1 bear, built their council fires and signal mokcs, jerked their venison and roasted the | pale faced captive on these same grounds, and | hn O | heavenward from among her stately forest | trees. The great frog and tadpole pond north supply station on the main trail between the
 fertile clam banks ot Long Island sound and l the great musKrat hatcheries of the North. l 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 vol loping, and so on ad-infinitum. We claim tor
 Hawleyville an antiquity deserving ot public l Acknowledgement an 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 equally successful pollywog | hatcheries in the great north frog ponds. l 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 pollywog l hAtcheries are really wonderful. They are located near the Shepaug car shops and em- brace some three acres Of land and water and muSkrat.buil islands. The nutritious quali- ties of the water, it's temperature, the altitude and everything else here at Haw1eyville seems to be just right for the successful birth and propagation Of polywogs. 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 gish or tidewater stream of onfy a few tath- oms' debth, and we can produce pollywogs enough in one good warm July week to stock fairly well every river, irrigating ditch and | laguna in the great state of Texas, We will tell you more of Hawleyville anon, but e are too busy to write often. Call and see us when you visit Hawleyville,
 A. c. BAKER.
 N5w Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Union
 Depot, Hawleyville, Conn.