The Newtown bee., 1895-08-09
4. G. Bakers Ady't.

Did you ever live on the frontier and have squatters and settlers come in and stake out 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 frontiersman2 No? Well then you can hardly appreciate our feelings, when one morning. last week, we heard the sound ot saw and hammer, and upon going out to Tn. vestgate found a new conner, ''tenderfoot,
 a fellow from away over the divide had nov ed in and was putting up a wagon shop, yes sir & real bonafide wagon shop, right here in Hawleyville, just like they have back in the settlements, and making noise enough to the big game within five miles ot us. It fairly
 took our breath away to think that an ordl
 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 of times in the far West when years ago we occasionally helped move men over into the next county and sometimes at tEe point of Winchester rifles when they committed sucn little breaches ot etiquette as this. Four short summers have scarcely passed since we came to Hawleyville, 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 De at rest, tar from the maddening throng, and the tumult and strife ot the settlements. We were so far out on the frontier at that time that we remember one prominent newspaper puDmnshi;
 Bridgeport, in commenting upon our enter
 prise said that 'the man must nave money 10 burn, but was undoubtedly crazy, for there would be just as much sense in building an opera house on Pike's Peak,as such large fur niture salesrooms at Hawieyv1lle. You have no idea about the wildness of this sec- ton. Why, we have within a year been out in the morning and seen-within 100 feet of our
 salesrooms, the tracks where bear. and deer, and elk, and Indians and other large game had passed in the night. teHyou It made us ache to get out our trusty rifle, yet Ii we had
 followed them up undoubtedly Barnum or
 Buffalo Bill, or some ot those old hunters 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 Of it we have got a wagon shop here, and other emblems and
 torerunners Of civilization are creeping in and five do not rise in our own might and put them down, we are liable to become
 town, a borough, a city with paved streets,
 and sidewalks, and stores, and banks, and
 churches, and theatres, and billiard rooms,
 and we shall have to pay our share of all the
 heavy taxes, and bursted water mains, and
 leaky gas pipes, and annual vaccinations
 grinders, and measles, and our best men will
 abscond with the public funds, and our near
 favored the other fellow at last municipal 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 ot HaWleyV1lle- 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 have the deadly live wires, and lawyers, and strife, and contention in every quarter, and street and saloon fights and circuses and inauguration | balls, ,and doctors bills and hundreds of ways | ln WHICH Uo SpeiiN our LiesiSIS lhcoLleS eh1e are unknown to the trontiersman, and then we shall have to advance the price of furni- | ture, 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 moment the many | advantages of our location and compare the ! difference in the expense between handling | turniture 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.