The Newtown bee., 1893-06-02
HAWLEYVILLE {?

Perhaps, gentle, reader, you do not know where Hawleyville is. No? Well, it's your has been, and has never tried to Skulk nor hide herself. Hawleyville is built on one of the oldest and ripest sections ot land in North America. It is built on what is known made land, so is a portion of Chicago, the only difference being that Chicago land has most of 1t been made du'ing 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 ot theological and geological students and deep thinkers in general for ages. but unlike the Chicago land, it seems to be an indisputed fact t nat II was naae auflng tne same week ahe 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 tor thousands of years, so when speak of Hawleyville, 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 of Hawleyville were laid. She ante-dates the Pyramids ot Egypt and the great Chinese wall, Pompeii and Her culaneum, the rise of Bakers Furniture Busi ness and the fall ~ot the Roman empire, Bel shazzars 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 aseNwould also the lite and death struggles of Lydia Pinkham and Julius Caesar. Ii she could speak she would mention as 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 snc- cessfuI 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 these same grounds, and the smoke rom hundreds Of TeDeGS curled heavenward from among her stately forest trees. The great frog and tadpole pond north Of Hawleyyille 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 of 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 Iopng, and so ad-infinitum. We claim tor Hawleyyille an antiquity deserving ot public acknowledgement ani recognition. That she wlll become famous some day is beyond question. The two great and growing indus tfles of the place pow are Bakers furniture business and the equally successful pollywog hatcheries in the great north frog ponds. Bakers furniture establishments is now so we'll known from one side of the state to the oth CT that it needs no mention, bur the poilywog hatcheries are really wonderful, They are brace some three acres Of land and water and muskrat- built islands. The nutritious quail and everything else here at HawIeyville seems to be just right for the successful birth and propagation of pollywoSs- 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 idewater stream of onfy a few fath- 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 Hawleyvil anon, but we are too busy to write often. Call and see us when you visit Hawleyville.
 A. G. BAKER,
 New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Union
 Depot. Hawleyville, Conn.