The Newtown bee., 1895-07-05
A. G. Bakers Ady't.

Isn't it sad and deplorab1e, the ignorance that crops out and comes to the face now
 est frica' to find it either. why onIy' one evening last week, we stood on the Opera town of Danbury when a middle aged man, a real bright looking man, with a. crease in his
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 squirted a double dose eot''knocker- out drops" right squarely in our face and eyes our paral- ysls 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 10 make sure that he
 was in real earnest and not joker. Could it
 be possible that this question could be asked in all seriousness and in straight English, in this day of 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 It's 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 here in the streets of Danbury. Proud old
 Danbury with her magnificent public library and unparalleled system of public, private and hlgh schools, and sewing societies and other kindred bureaus Of information. The town of all towns where every man, women and child and all the latest ideas on hats, and able to solve everything from the knotty problems ot 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 soHcitude q hen is taught by in
 stinct to exercise during Ghe matching period over ''W Western lined" than over "tresh laid near bys"; or just when apig ceases to be a pig and becomes hog. We all know just when this transformation takes place in a man, but 1t is much more =iifficuIt to deter.
 nlne m us date tn a pig. And this question to be put straight at US, of all others who have for the past three years been repeatedly and most consistently calling attention to Haw1ey 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 para1yzed and had to grasp the corner of the hEGthn6pP answer for us, and what do you think he said why he simply looked aghast and said "dam- phino," 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 and burned green, and the trolley cars stopped, and the opera house seemed totter- | for our firm hold upon it) to crash down upon | City Hall, and the night lunch wagon, and | the soldiers monument stood at a ,"charge | bayoneto position or like the leaning tower | of Pisa, and HartwelPs clothing house ap- peared in the Armament upside down be- tween the stars of the Great Dipper and the town clock struck hurriedly and ominously live minutes ahead of time, instead of five
 West Street side aI is r Is ra1t m tai s | is their custom) and everything betokened
 the crack Of doom. When we came to. the
 electric lights were burning brightly and the | man had passed on, or else been swallowed up in the sidewalk, and we were glad tor his second question would undoubtedly have | kre CIV anything about Bakers furniture estab- lishment or where 1t was to be tound," and then we should undoubtedly have dropped
 dead in our tracks,. Now we started out with the idea of calling attention to some things | at Hawleyvnle but we struck the Gulf Stream
 and dritted from our course. so when you come to Hawleyville as we know you will be fore you decide to buy much furniture,7 we shall take all the more pains to show you | through our very complete line of furniture
 mattings, carpets, baby carriages and retrig | orators and our low prices. We have nc l"snap" bargains or 'leadersn as they are in lnocently called. but we have good, square consistent, uniform prices, from top to base lment, and all based on the smallast expenses we believe of any furniture concern of oul
 size in the state.
 | A. c. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms | Opposite Union Depot, Hawley-
 aefraa, vile, Conn. 57s4 sa.a