The Newtown bee., 1893-09-01
DID YOU EVER

know such commotion among the banks? Banks private, corporate and national all seem to be in trouble and failure after failure follow each other in rapid succession. Some banks however, are solid as the everlasting hills and are conducted with such sagacious foresight that they pass through financial troubles as smoothly us ship rides an oiled cellar stairs. Naught short of an earthquake can shake them. HaWleYVille is small burgh and we nave but one bank' bnt It IS just this kind of bank. It is known in business circles as the First SAN D Bank of Hawley- vile. This bank is one of the oldest institu- tions in the land. When Columbus landed she was, and when Bar<hamsted was settled she all the more. The aborigine child. ren of Columbus time played humble. te- peg in her front yard, yet she was not opened for active business until the building of the New England railroad. The credit of this railroad dOus drafts upon this bank and they were hon. ored for a long time without a single deposit being made. Queer but true. This not good business policy for the bank and it low cred her standing in the eyes of the general public, (sOme l2 teet) During these depres- sing times some of her most valuable front age was allowed to pass into other hands and Bakers large furniture warerooms now cast h black shadow across a portion of her front, and Ct late the Gospel tent of the"Union Evan- gelical Faith Cure," Fourtold Gospel Christ ian Alliance has been pitched right in front of her frontest front and the most astounding miracles have been performed within cables length of her terrnced foundations New England's drafts, as said before, were heavy, but the biggest draft, for 8 small one, ever made on her, and one that came near burst
 
 Bakers furniture building were put on. Ii was contract work and there was a sub con and artisans to share tRe respon- sibility. Baker was in Colorado at tails. Making bricks without straw comparatively easy task to making nor proved to the world that the latter can be done For proof the patched and mortarless spots on Bakers ceilings. How the workrnen finished the job and escaped injury from fall M ing ceilings is what no fellow tell. We are desirous ot letting the public know who straw" and should have done it in the courts | long ago but unfortunately property titles son of disaster. When we see 8 patch of plas- 1 tering fall on a fine piece of furniture feel I like the man who said Hanging is too good | for him; he ought to be kicked to death by 8 | iackass and I'd like to do it." Ii we find 1 out who is responsible for the present condi- | tion of our walls (and we think we cam and ii 1 we ever catch that man, and ii we can identi- | fy him, and if he undertakes to crawl through 1 half way through, and ii we have our slippers on, and ii the minister is not looking, we'll just warm that man till he can't sit down, for two moons, without making his feet sore l Have you ever had patches of plaStering fall 1 all over your house and keep doing it? Nol Well then, my dear friend, syonr Christian for titude has never been fully tested. You are not ripe for the kingdom yet. We sometimes speak in jest, but never on this subject of poor best friends when we think of it. Why only the other day a poor widow woman with g
 
 broken off looked at a pile of plastering or the floor and then at the ceiling and venture6 to inquire sympathetically if lightning ha6 struck our building. Well now you don | know how near we came to knocking tha poor woman down the cellar stairs and fellins her to mind her own business; but then WI are ripening fast and we grow mild every day. We even now wish this man long life and 8 carbuncle every year, and if h. should happen to ripen and be plucked first you may see us making an annual pilgrimage 1 every Thanksgiving morning to place forget me-nots and fresh mortar on his grave.
 In our sane moments we feel deeply gIate full to generous public for their sympath, and patronage. They come long distance and from all directions to buy furniture of Us
 They know that we are located away out herr
 in bowling wilderness, with tall grass al
 around us and an immense stock ot furnitur
 on our hands, and they know we have beel unfortunate with our ceilings and they fee sorry for us and they put their hands ava,
 down deep III their pockets and they buy lib
 orally and they drop a tear now and then, no
 so many, however, as when they buy i
 some other place.
 The preacher tells us we are all poor sir ners and that this is a wicked, wicked world
 but we begin to think there must be a Whoi lot of good in it. after all. Come and see us Don't look up nor say anything about ou ceilings and we will try and use you well an
 invite you into our reading room while Wal ing tor trains.