The Newtown bee., 1895-06-21
A. G. Bakers Ady't.

Isn't it sad and dep1orable, the ignorance that crops ont and comes to the surface now
 and then? And we don't have to go to "Dark est Africa" to find it either. Why only one evening last week, we stood on the Opera House corner in the enlightened and cultured town of DanbuTy when middle aged man, a real bright looking man, with & crease in his
 tr66aser legs too, stepped up and says, Say,
 where's Hawleyville?" Well now ii he had squirted a double dose eot"knocker-out-drops" rlght squarely in our face and eyes our paral- ys1s could not have been more complete. We stood and looked at 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 joker. Could it pc PosslDIe that this question could be asked In all seriousness and in straight English, in thls day ot enlightenment when every school boy In the land can tell you where the baboon sprang from and can locate the source and mouth of the Columbia riVer and repeat in all its detail the story where truth and verac. lty and George Washington's little hatchet and certain cherry tree got mixed up to-
 gether, etc, etc, and this to happen right nefe In the streets of Danbury. Proud old Danbury with her magnificent public library
 and unparalleled system ofpub1ic, private and h!gn schools, and sewing societies and other Kindred bureaus Of information. The town of all towns where every man, women and child Is supposed to be chock tun of knowledge,
 and all the latest ideas on hats, and able to
 solve everything from the knotty problems
 o1 Euclid, of Sociology, Theology, Geology, and the intricate mysteries Of the planetary system down to the common place easier questions Of just how much more care and
 motherly soEcitude a hen is taught by in l over ''W estern lined" than over "ffesh laid
 near bys,'; or just when pig ceases to be a when this transformation takes place in a man, but 1t Is much more difficult to deter be put straight at US, of all others who have Tor the past three years been repeate lily and most persistently 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 pt a hxaf a answer for us, and what do you think he said
 why he simply looked aghast and said s'dam- ph1no," or 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 ana burned green, and the trolley cars
 oopRed 43o and inc the opera house seemed totter TOT our nrm hold upon it) to crash down upon City Hall and the night lunch wagon, and the soldiers monument stood at "charge bayonet" position or like the leaning tower ot Pisa, and Hartwel1's clothing house ap peared in the Armament unside down he 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 (as
 IS IS thelr custom) and everything betokened the crack of doom. When we came to, the l 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 if "we I KneW anything about Bakers furniture estab- | nshment or where it was to be tound, and | then we should undoubtedly have dropped | dead In our tracks. Now we started out with 1 the Idea Of calling attention to some things
 at Hawleyvflle but we struck the Gulf Stream | ana dr1fted from our course, so when you | come to Hawleyville as we know you will be- l lore you decide to buy much furniture, we shall take all the more pains to show you
 through our very complete line of furniture, l Inatt1ngs, carpets, baby carriages and refrig l orators and our low prices. We have no
 'snap" bargains or '1eaders" 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 size in the state.
 A. G. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms
 Opposite Union Depot, Hawley-
 vile. Conn.