The Newtown bee., 1895-07-19
A. G. Bakers Adv't.

Did you ever live on the frontier and have squatters and settlers come in and stake out claims all around you, and frighten away the big game and in numerous other ways break the unwritten laws and recognized rules of the frontiersman? No? Well then you can hardly appreciate our feelings, when one morning, last week, we heard the sound of saw and hammer and upon going out to in. vestigate found new comer a 'tendertoot," ed in and was putting up a wagon shop, yes sir a real bonafide wagon shop, right here in settlements, and making noise enough to bring on rain and thoroughly stampede all the big game within five miles ot us. It fairly took our breath away to think that an ord1- nary sized man with one suspender broken andno gun in sight should have the audacity
 you can't call it courage, to without leave or
 liberty from us few settlers. thus invade the sanctity of our rural retreat. It reminded us ot times in the far West when years ago we occasionally helped move men oyer into the next county and sometimes at the point of Winchester rifles when they committed such little breaches ot etiquette as this. Four short summers have scarcely passed since we came to Hawleyyille, staked out our claim and erected furniture warerooms here in the tall grass and among the stately forest trees, that we might commune with nature and be at rest, tar from the maddening thrOng, and the tumult and strife of the settlements. w were tar out on the frontier at that time that we remember one prominent newspaper publish ed in nearby saltwater hamlet, called Bridgeport, in comm menting upon our enter prise said that "the man must have money to burn, but was undoubtedly crazy, tor there would be just as much sense in building an opera house on Pike's Peak as such large fur nlture salesrooms at Hawleyville." You have no idea about the wildness of this sec- tion. Why, we have within year been out in the morning and seen-within 100 feet ot our salesrooms, the tracks where bear. and deer, and elk, and Indians and other large game had passed in the night: tell you 1t made us ache to get out our trusty rifle, yet if we had followed them up undoubtedly Barnum or Buffalo Bill, or some of those old hunters would have claimed to have been on their trail fiji st and ii we had killed anything they would have made us whack up with them on the meat and now just think ot it we have got @ wagon shop here, and other emblems and torerunners of civilization are creeping in and if we do not rise in our own might and put them down, we are liable to become a town, 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 and we shall have atyphoid fever and organ grinders, and measles, and our best men will abscond with the public funds, and our near est neighbor won't speak to us because we 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 Haw1eyviile- will be filled in to make room for the new gas works, and all our homes will be filled with public sewer gas and aspirations to get on the police force, and we shall havs the deadly live wires, and lawyers,and strife, and contention in every quarter, and street ana saloon fights, and circuSeS and inauguration balls, ,and doctors bills and hundreds ot ways | ill which to spend our meagre incomes that are unknown to the trontiersman, and then we shall have to advance the price Of furni tuTe, but until all these things come to pass we shall continue business on the same old | lines, but all joking aside, we should like to have you consider for a moment the many ! advantages ot our location and compare the | difference in the expense between handling ! furniture here and in the city, and then come | and look us over before you buy.
 A. G. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms
 Opposite Union Depot, Hawley-
 vile, Conn.