The Newtown bee., 1893-05-19
HAWLEYVILLE /?

Perhaps, gentle read CT, yon do not know where Hawleyville is. No? Well, it's your own fault, for sue 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 on what is known as made land, so is 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 from banana peelS, broken down hoop skirts. cigar stumps, cOrks, and street sweepings in general What the Hawleyville land was igInaily made from IS a question that has pug Zled, mystited 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 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 settling down to bed rock and solid basis tor 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 Of Egypt and the great Chinese wall, Pompeii and Her culaneum, the rise Of Bakers Furniture BuSi
 ness and the tall of the Roman empire, Bel shazzar's feast and the hand writing the wall, the birth ot Columbus and the first Con- necticut river shad, would be comparatively fresh entries in her diary, would also the life and death struggles of Lydia Pinkham and Julius CpSar. Ii she could speak she would mention as but the happenings of yesterday the food and the WantOn destruction Ot En- glish t3a in Boston harbOr. She could have given Adam and Eve valuable pointers on "what l know about the early days ot sue cesstul gardening" and could point to the 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 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 Of tepees curled heaVenWard from among her stately forest trees. The great frog and tadpole pond north ot Hawleyville was undoubtedly the hallway 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 Hawleyville an antiquity deserving ot public acknowledgement and recognition. That she 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. 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 hatcheries are really wonderful. They are located near the Shepaug car shops and em- 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 for 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 ttdewater stream Of onfy a few tath- l oms' debth, and we 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 you visit Hawleyville.
 A.. c. BAKER,