The Newtown bee., 1893-06-30
FAYETTEVILLE {?

Perhaps, gentle reader 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 on one Of the oldest and ripest sections of land in North America. It is built on what is known as made land, so is portion Ot Chicago the only it been made during the last decade, is a change from the original plan and is made from banana peels, broken down hoop skirts, general. What the Hawleyvilie land was iginally made from is q 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 it 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 ettling down to bed rock and solid basis tor thousands of years, so when we speak Of Hawleyville, we always refer to her solid and stable foundat1ons, and not to the temporary destructible structures erected from time Ia time above them. Just think what has ranspired ill the world around since the foundations Ot HawleyVllle were laid. She ante-dates the Pyramids ot Egypt and the great Chinese wall, Pompeii and Her culaneun, the of Bakers Furniture Busi ness and the tall ot the Roman empire, Bel shazZars 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 Pinkham and Julius Cpsar. If she could speak she would mention but the happenings of yesterday
 
 glish t9a 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 was even more detrimental to the interests of the travelling public than is the present schedule on the Berk shire Division. The noble red men of the forest shot down the bison and the bear, built their council fires and signal mokes, jerlxed their venison and roasted the pale faced captive on these same grounds, and | the smoke from hundreds of tepees curled | leaVenward rom among her SGatGly 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 ot Long Island sound and the great muskrat hatcheries of the North When the foundations Ot HawleyVille were l laid, Mark Anthony had never heard of Cleo paUra and George Washington had never been | called upon to choose between a lie and vol | loping, and so on ad d-infinitum. We claim tor | Hawleyville an antiquity deserving ot public
 acknow owledgement aut 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 establishments 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 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 Haw1eyvjlle seems
 to be just right for the successful birth and
 propagation ot pollywogs. The layers are
 wonderfully productive, ana 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 fath
 ons' 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 Hawleyville anon but are
 too busy to write often. Call and see us when
 you visit Hawleyville.
 A. c. BAKER,
 New Fnrnitnra Wararnnms Onnosita unior