The Newtown bee., 1893-06-23
HAWLEYVILIE |?

Pera PPerhaRs genf "a you do not f kn0W has been, and has never tried to Skulk nor hide herself. Hawleyvill Is built on of the oldest and ripest secti, ns 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 1t been made duting the last decade, is 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 a question that has pug
 zled mystifed 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 lt was made during the same week and
 from the same material that the celebrated
 and seemingly indestructibe 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 we speak of HawleyVille, we always
 refer to her solid and stable foundations and
 not to the temporary destructible structures
 erected from time 8 time above them. Just think what has transp1red 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 culaneun, the rise ot 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 Pinl<ham and Julius Caesar. Ii she could speak she would
 mention as but tire happenings of yesterday the hood and the WantOn destruction of En-
 glish t9a in Boston harbOr. She could have given Adam and Eve valuable pointers on
 what 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 ot tepees curled heaV from among her stately forest trees. The great frog and tadpole pond north of 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 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 wol- loping, and so on ad-inffnitum. We claim tor HawleyV1lle an antiquity deserving Of public 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. 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 shops and em- | brace some three acres of land and water and
 muskrat-built islands. The nutritious quail | ties of the water its temperature, the altitude and everything else here at Hawleyville seems to be just right tor the successful birth and oi pony " OSSs lHo ldySI dto wonderfully productive, and venture to | say that one full grown native layer can, when she feels like it, lay eggs enough in one
 night to almost stop 1.avigation in any slug | gish or tidewater stream of onfy few tath- l onls' debth, and we can produce pollywogs enough in one good warm July week to stock | fairly well every river, irrigating ditch and l laguna in the great state of Texas. We will l tell you more Of Hawleyville anon, but we are | too busy to write often. Call and see us when | you visit Hawleyville.
 |
 A. G. BAKER,
 New Furniture Warsrooms, Opposite Union Depot. Hawleyvile. Conn.