The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1895-07-26
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 fr1ghten away the
big game and in numerous other ways break
the unwritten laws and recognized rules of
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 a new conner, "tenderfoot,"
q fellow from away over the divide had NOV
ed in and was putting up a wagon shop, yes
sir, a real bonatfde wagon shop, right mere 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. 1t 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 IL courage, 10 Wltho9t IeaVe or
liberty from few settlers, thus invade the
sanctity OF our rural retreat. 1t reminded us
OF times in the tar 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 such
little breaches OF etiquette as this Four short
summers have scarcely passed since we came
to Hawleyv1lle, Staked out our claim ana
erected furniture warerooms here in the tall
grass and among the stately forest trees, that
we might commune with nature ana pc at
rest, far from the maddening throng, and the
tumult and strife OF the settlements. w were
SO far out on the frontier at that time that we
remember one prominent newspaper publish
ed in g. nearby saltwater hamlet, called
Bridgeport, in comm ent1ng 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 Pixies Peak as such large FUR
niture salesrooms at HawleyV1le. YOU
have no idea about the wildness of this sec
ton. Why, we have within 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. tell you 1t made us
ache to get out our trusty rifle, yet II 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 il we had killed anything they
would have made us whaSk up with them on
the meat,a now just think of ii we have got
a wagon shop here, and other emblems ana
forerunners of civilization are creeping in
and five do not rise in our own might ana
put them down, we are liable to become
town a borough, city with paved streets,
and sidewalks, and stores, and banks, anu
and we shall have to pay our share of all the
heavy taxes, and bursted water mains, ana
| leaky gas pipes, and annual vaccinations
and we shall have typhoid fever and organ
grinders, and measles, and our best men wall
| abscond with the public funds, and our near
faVored the other fellow at last municipal
| election, and we shall have War to the knlIe,
| great north frog ponds and pollywog hatcher
ies-the glory and beauty OF Hawleyville-
1 will be filed in to make room Tor the new
gas works, and all our homes VIII be hlled
with public sewer gas and aspirations to get
| on the police force, and we shall haYe the
deadly live wires, and Iawy yers, ,and strife, and
Contention in every quarter, and street and
saloon fights and ctrcuseS and inauguration
balls,an doctors bills and hundreds OF ways
in which to spend our meaBre incomes bnaI
are unknown TO the trontiersman, and then
we shall have to advance the price OF turn1
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 a moment the many
advantages OF 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
1 Opposite Union Depot, Hawley-
1 vile, Conn.