The Newtown bee., 1895-05-17
A G. Bakers Ady't.

Isn't it sad and deplorable, the ignorance that crops out and comes to the surface nov and then? And we don't have to go to "DarK
 est A trica" to find it either. Why only one
 evening last week, we stood on the Opera
 House corner in the enlightened and cultured town of Danbury when middle aged man, real bright looking man, with crease in his
 trouser legs too, stepped up ard says, Say,
 squirted a double dose ot"knocker- out-drops' right squarely in our face and eyes our paral- ysis could not have been more complete. We stood and looked aI that man until one sus
 bender button burst from it's socket and then we looked at him again to make sure that he was in real earnest and not 8 joker. Could 1t
 be possible that this question could be asked in all seriousness and in straight English, in this day Of enlightenment when every school boy in the land can tell you where the baboon sprang from end can locate the source and mouth Of the Columbia river, and repeat in all it's detail the story where truth and verac
 Ity and George WasLIHgton's little hatchet and a certain cherry tree got mixed up to- gether, etc etc and this to happen right here in the streets Of Danbury. Proud old Danburv with her magnflcen public library and unFaral:cl,d d sy stem Of public private and high schools, and sewing societies and other
 kindred bureaus of information. The town of
 All towns wh Ie every man, women and child
 and all the latest ideas on hats, and able to
 solve everything from the knotty problems ot Euclid, of Sociology, Theology, Geology, ana the intricate mysteries ot the planetary system down to the common place easier questions of just how much more care and motherly solicitude hen is taught by in
 stinct to exercise during the matching period over "Western lined" than over ''fresh laid near bys""i or just when pig ceases to be
 when this transformation takes place in a man, but it is much more difficult to deter mine its date in a pig. And this question to
 be put straight at US, of all others who have
 for the past three years been repeatedly and most consistently calling attention to Hawley- vile and parting back the tall grass with our own hands that you might be able to see her.
 Do you wonder that we were staggered and paralyzed and had to grasp the corner ot the opera House Tor port, and let DYStSnder answer for us, and W hat do you think he said
 why he simply looked aghast and said "dam-
 phino,' some similar sounding foreign
 word, and passed on, and do you wonder that at this Juncture everything turned black and
 we saw stars and passed into kind of semi
 conscious state, and the electric lights flick
 cred and burned green, and the trolley cars
 stopped. and the opera house seemed totter.
 for our firm hold upon tt) to crash down upon City Hall, and the night lunch wagon, and the soldiers monument stood at a "charge bayonet" position or like the leaning tower of Pisa, and Fartwell's clothing house ap peared in the Armament upside down be. tween the stars of the Great Dipper and the town clock struck hurriedly and ominously five minutes ahead ot time, instead of five minutes behind, as is its custom, and the West street side walks were rent in twain Gas is their custom) and everything betokened electric lights were burning brightly and the man had passed on, or else been swallowed up in the sidewalk, and we were glad for his second question would undoubtedly have been "Who is president now?" and ii "we CIV anything about Bakers furniture estaD lishment or where it was to be tound," and then we should undoubtedly have dropped dead in our tracks. Now we started out with the idea of calling attention to some things | at Hawleyvllle but we struck the Gulf Stream and drifted from our course, so when you come to Hawleyville as we know you will be fore you decide to buy much furniture, we shall take all the more pains to show you through our very complete line of furniture, | mattings, carpets, baby carriages and retrig orators and our low prices We have no l "snap" bargains or Headers" as they are in | nocently called. but we have good, square, {! consistent, uniform prices, from top to base ment, and all based on the smallaSt expenses | we believe of any furniture concern of our l size in the state.
 A. G. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Union Depot, Hawley- vile. Conn.