The Newtown bee., 1893-05-26
HAWLEYVILLE |?

Perhaps, gentle lead CT, you do not know
 where Hawleyville 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. IIawleyVille is built of
 the oldest and ripest sections Of land in North
 America. 1t is built what is known as
 made land, so is portion Of Chicago, the only
 difference being that Chicago land has most of
 it been made du' ing the last decade, is q 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 HawleyvilIe land was or iginally made from is a 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 that il was made during the same week and from the same material that the celebrated and seemingly indcstructible great Rocky
 mountain ranges were, and this land has been slowly maturing ana settllng down to bed rock and a 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 destructible structures erected from time ia time above them. Just think wha$ has transpired in the world around since the foundations c 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 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 Cesar. If she could speak she would mention as but the happenings of yesterday the flood and the wantOn destruction ot En- glish tea in Boston harbor. She could have given Adam and Eve valuable pointers on ''what know about the early days Of sue cesstul 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 nokes, jerzed their venison and roasted the pale faced captive on these same grounds, and the smoke from hundreds ot tepees cuTled 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 of Long Island sound and the great muskrat hatcheres of the North. When the foundations ot Hawleyvflle 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 loping, and so on ad-nfinitum. We claim tor HawleyVille an antiquity deserving ot 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 1t needs no menti0n but the pOllywog hatcheries are really wonderful. They are located near the Shepaug car shops and en- brace some three acres Of land and water and
 muskrat-buil 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 of pollywogs. The layers are wonderfully productive, and 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 gtsh or tdewatef stream of onfy few tatil- 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 Hawleyyille anon but we are too busy to write often. Call and see us when you visit Hawleyyille.
 A. c. BAKER,
 New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Union
 Depot HawIeyville, Conn.