The Newtown bee., 1893-06-16
HAWLEYVILLE ?

Perhaps, gentle lead CT, you do not know where HawleyVile is. No! Well, it's your 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 ot land in North made land so is a 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, brolx lxen 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 zIed mystified 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 indestrucuble great Rocky lnountitIh ranges were, anu lllI7 itllt httS oSeI % slowly maturing ana Settilng doWn 10 ped rock and solid basis for thousands of years, so when speak ot Hawleyville, we always refer to her solid and stable foundations, and not to the temporary destructib1e structures erected from time ia time above them. Just 1 think what has transpired in the world around | since the foundations ot Hawleyville were | laid. She ante e-dates the Pyramids of Egypt l and the great Chinese wall, Pompeii and Her | culaneufn the rise of Bakers Furniture Busi | ness and the fall 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 Plnkham and Julius Cesar. Ii she could speak she would mention as but the happenings of yesterday ] the flood and the wdntOn destruction Of En- glish tea in Boston harbor. She could have | given Adam and Eve valuable pointers on "what know about the early days ot sue l cessful gardening" and could point to the time when the running of railroad trains was | even more detrimental to the interests ot the l travelling public than is the present schedule | on the Berkshire Division. The noble red men of the forest shot down the bison and the l bear, built their council fires and signal | mokes, jerked their veniSon and roasted the | pale faced captive on these same grounds, and 1 the smoke from hundreds of tepees curled E,aT .aFff l 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. laid, Mark Anthony had never heard of Cleo patra, and George Washington had never been called upon to choose between lie and vol loping, and so on ad-infinltum. We claim tor HawIeyville antiquity deserving of public acknowledgment ana 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 poilywog
 Bakers furniture establishments is now so well
 known from one side of the state to the oth-
 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 Hawleyyilie seems
 to be just right for the successful birth and
 propagation Of pollywogs. 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 few tath
 oms' debth, and we can produce pollywogs
 enough in one good warm July week to stock
 fairly well every river, irrigating ditch ane laguna in the great state of Texas. We vii tell you more of Hawleyville anon, but we arc too busy to write often. Call and see us wher you visit Hawleyviile.
 A. C. BAKER,
 New Furniture warerSpms, Opposite Unioi
 Depot Hawleyville Conn.