The Newtown bee., 1893-07-14
HAWLEYVILLE {?

Perhaps, gentle reader, you do not know
 where HawleyYille 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 C. land in North
 America. It is built on what is known as
 made land, so is q portion Ot 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
 from banana peels, broken down hoop skirts,
 cigar stumps, cOrks, and street SweepingS in general. What the HaWleyVille land was or iginally made from is question that has pug Zled, mystitied 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 was made during the same week and from the same material that the celebrated
 and seemingly indestructble great Rocky
 mountain ranges were, and this land has been slowly maturing and ettling down to bed rock and solid basis for thousands Of years, 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 rise of Bakers Furniture Bnsi 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 life and death struggles of Lydia Pinkham and Julius C@sat. Ii she could speak she would mention but the happenings of yesterday
 the flood and the wanton destruction of En- glish tea in Boston harbOr. She could have given Adam and Eve valuable pointers on
 ''what know about the early days Of sue cessful gardening" and could point to the time when the running of railroad trains 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 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 trees. The great frog and tadpole pond north of Hawleyville was undoubtedly the halfway
 supply station on the main trail between the fertile clam banks Ot 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 paUra, and George Washington had never been called upon to choose between a lie and a vol loping, and so on ad-infinitum We claim tor Hawleyville antiquity deserving ot public cknowledgement an1 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. 1 Bakers furniture establishment is now so well known from one side of the state to the oth- l CT that it needs no mention, but the pollywog | hatcheries really wonderful. They are | located near the Shepaug car shops and en- l brace some three acres of land and water and | mus rat-built islands. The nutritious quail | ties of the water, it's temperature, the altitude 1 and everything else here at Hawleyville seems l to be just right for the successful birth and o1 Dolly "oSS. ido ID 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 hdewater 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 we are | too busy to write often. Call and see when l you visit Hawleyville.
 A. c. BAKER,
 New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Union Depot, Hawlevville. Conn.