The Newtown bee., 1895-09-13
A. q, Bakers Adv't.

1 Did you ever live on the frontier and have 1 squatters and settlers come in and stake ouS l claims all around you, and Tighten away the 1 big game and in numerous other ways break 1 the unwritten laws and recognized rules o1 1 the frontiersman? No? Well then you can l morning, last week. we heard the sound of saw and hammer, and upon going out to Tn. vestigate found a new conner, 'ttendertoot, | a fellow from away over the divide had nov l ed in and was putting up wagon SnOp, yes sir, 8 real bonnfide wagon shop, right here in Hawleyville, just like they have back in the settlements, and making noise enough to bring on rain and thoroughly stampede all the big game within five miles Of us. It fairly took our breath away to think that an ord1- nary sized man with one suspender broken
 and no gun in sight should have the audaclty, you can't call 1t courage, to without leaVe or liberty from us few settlers, thus 1nVade the sanctity ot our rural retreat. It reminded us Of times in the far West when years ago we occasionally helped move men over into the next county and sometimes at the point of Winchester rifles when they committed sucn little breaches of etiquette as this. Four short summers have scarcely passed since we came to Hawleyville, staked out our claim and erected furniture waFeroomS here in the tall grass and among the stately forest trees, that we might commune with nature and be at l rest, tar from the maddening throng, and the tumult and strife Of the settlements. We were so tar out on the frontier at that time that we remember one prominent newspaper paolIsa, ] ed in a nearby saltwater hamlet, called 1 Bridgeport, in commenting upon our enter 1 prise said that 'the man must have money to burn, but was undoubtedly crazy, TOT there would be inst as much sense in building an l opera house on Pike's Peak.as such large fur nirure salesrooms at Hawleyville." You have no idea about the wildness of this sec ton. Why, we have within a year been out in the morning and seen-W1thln 100 feet or our salesrooms, the tracks where bear, and deer, ! and el k, and Indians and other large game I had passed in the night. l tell you it made us ache to get out our trusty rifle, yet 1t we had ! followed them up undoubtedly Barnum or Buffalo Bill, or some ot those old hunters
 would have claimed to % hsxe been on thelr her l would have made us whack up with them on ] the meat,and now just think of 1t we have got 1 6 wagon shop here, and other emblems and l forerunners of civilization are creeping In s and if we do not rise in our own might and put them down, we are liable to become a town, a borough city with paved streets, and sidewalks, and stores, and banks, and churches, and theatres, and billiard rooms, heavy taxes, and burSted water mains, and | leaky gas pipes. and annual vaccinations l grinders, and measles, and our best men will abscond with the public funds, and our near
 6e ober fapaw at last election, and we shall have war to the knife, over who shall the post master be, and our great north frog ponds and pollyWog hatcher ies-the glory and beauty of Hawleyville-- will be filled in to make room for the new gas works, and all our homes will be hlled with public sewer gas and aspirations to get on the police force, and we shall have the deadly live wires. and 1awyers,an strife, and saloon fights. and circuses and inauguration ball and doctors bills and hundreds of ways in which to spend our meagfe Incoines Ill1a l are unknown to the montiersman, and then I we shall have to advance the price Of furn1
 ture but until all these things come to pass
 we shall continue business on the same oid lines, but all joking aside, we should like te have you consider for a moment the many l advantages of our location and compare the l Jifferemce in the expense between handling furniture here and in the city, and then come
 and look us over before you buy.
 IA. c. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms I Opposite Union Depot, Hawley-
 vile. Conn.