The Newtown bee., 1893-08-18
DID YOU EVER

know such n 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 as solid as the everlasting hills and are conducted with such SagaciOus foresight that they pass through financial troubles as smoothly as a ship rides an oiled sea, or the hired girl banana peel down the cellar stairs. Naught short Ot an earthquake can shake them. Hawieyville is a small Eurgh and we have but one bank, but it is just this kind of a bank. It is known in business circles the First SAN D Bank of Hawley vile. This bank is one of the oldest institu- she was and when Barkhamsted was settled she was all the more. The abOrigine child ren of Columbus time played mumble-tepeg in her front yard, yet she was not opened for active business until the building ot the New England railroad. The credit of this railroad was then A. l, and the builders made tremen- dous drafts upon this bank and they were hon ored for a long time without single deposit being made. Queer but true. This was not good business policy for the bank and it low cred her standing in the eyes of the general public, (some l2 1eet.) 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 q black shadow across a portion ot her front, and of late the Gospel tent of the"Union EVan- gelical Faith Cpre," Fourtold Gospel Christ ian Alliance has been pitched right in front of her frontest trdnt and the most astounding miracles have been performed within cables length of her terraced foundations New but the biggest dratt, for a small one,, ever made on her, ana one that came near burst ing the bank, w'ls made when the walls of Bakers furniture building were put on. It was contract work and there was a sub con- tractor and thehe were many workmen and artisans to share the respon, the time and he cduld not look after the de- tails. Making bricks without straw was a tar Without lime olE cement, but it has been proved to the world that the latter can be done pGS0B on Bafer How the finished the job ana escaped injury from fall ing ceilings is whatEno fellow can tell. We are desirous ot letting the public know who the man is who can make bricks without straw, . and should have done it in the courts have been nicely arranged for coming sea son of disaster. When we see patch ot plas- | tering fall a fine piece of furniture we feel l like the man who said "Hanging is too good | for him; he ought to be kicked to death by a | iackass and I'd like to do it." Ii we can find | out who is responsible for the present c6ndi- | tion of our walls {and we think we cam and if | we ever catch that man, and ii we can identi- | fly him, and if he undertakes to crawl through | a knot hole, and if he gets stuck when about | half way through, and ii we have our slippers inst Warm n that man til he can't sit down for two moons, without making his feet sore
 Have you ever had patches of plasteri1ng L fall | Well then, my dear friend, your Christian for titude has never been fully tested. You are l not ripe for the kingdom yet. We sometimes | speak in jest, but never on this subject of poor | walls. We often get real angry and abuse oul | best friends when we think of it. Why only | the other day poor widow woman with 2 blind COW with a large family and one horr broken oil, looked at a pile of clustering or the floor and then at the ceiling and yenture6 to inquire sympathetically if lightning haC struck our building. Well now you don' | know how near we came to knocking tha poor woman down the cellar stairs and telling her to mind her own business; but then WI
 are ripening fast and we grow mild every Iday. We can even now wish this man
 long life and carbuncle every year, and if h. | should happen to ripen and be plucked first
 you may see making an annual pilgrimage
 every Thanksgiving morning to place forget
 me-nots and fresh mortar on his grave.
 | In our sane moments we feel deeply grate
 ful to 8 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 hers in bowling wilderness, with tall grass al around us and an immense stock of turnltur
 on our hands, and they know we have beel l unfortunate with our ceilings and they fee
 sorry for us and they put their hands awa. "a.
 down deep 1n their pockets and they buy lib 1 orally and they drop tear now and then; no 1 so many, however, as when they buy Il | some other place.
 The preacher tells us we all poor sir ners and that this is a wicked wicked world
 but we begin to think there must be a whol lot of good in 1t, after all. Come and see us ceilings and we will try and use you well an invite you into our reading room while wal ing for trains.
 A. C. BAKER,
 New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Unio
 Depot, Hawleyville. Conn.