The Newtown bee., 1895-09-06
A G. Bakers Ady't.

Did you ever live on the frontier and have squatters ard settlers e@me in and stake out big game and in numerous other ways preak the unwritten laws and recognized rules or the frontiersmanf Nof well theh you can can hardly appreciate our feelings, when one morning, last week, we heard the sound or saw and hammer, and upon going out to in, yestigate found Hew conner, ''tenderfoot,
 n fellow from away over the divide had nov ed in and was putting up a wagon shop, yes Haw1eyviIIe, just Iif9e they have back in the settlements, and making no1se enough to bring on rain and thoroughly stampede aL 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 audaclty' you can't call it courage, to without leave or
 liberty from us few settlers, thus invade the sanctity of our rural retreat. IL reiinaeu a @ us of times in the tar West when years ago we occasionally helped move men over hto Ine next county and sometimes at tne P9lnI R I,,o1i 4i Winchester rifles when they commItted .ti sucn little breaches Ot etiquette as LhlS- tour shoft summers have scarcely passed since we came to Hawleyville, staked out our claln ana ana 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. " 0 were so far out on the frontier at that time that we remember one prominent newspaper publ1sh- ed in nearby saltwater hamlet, calleo
 Bridgeport, in commenting upon our enter
 prise said that ''the man must have money to 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 @ Jur- n1biEe salesrooms at Hawleyville:" You have no idea about the wildness or this sec ton. Why, we have within 8 year been out in the morning and seen-within 100 feet of our salesrooms, the tracks where bear. and deer, and ell k, and Indians and other large game had passed in the night. tell you IL made us ache to get out our trusty rifle, yet if we had followed them up undoubtedly Barnum or Buffalo Bill, or some ot those old hunters would have claimed to have been on their | trail iii st and ii we had killed anything they | would have made us whack up with them on
 the meat,and now Just thlnk oi 9 IL T9 nave d god1 a wagon shop here, and other emblems ana forerunners of civilization are creeping In ! and five do not rise in our own nlgnt anu a put them down, we are liable to become a town, a borough, 8 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 vacclnamons l and we shall have typhoid lever and organ l grinders, and measles, and our pest men VIII abscond with the public funds, and our near l est neighbor won't speak to us because we | favored the other fellow at last municipal election, and we shall have war se the knife, ! over who shall the post master be, and our great north frog ponds and pollywog hatcher ies-the glory and beauty ot HawieyV1lle-
 Sas mlsi Works U and ali our homes viii be filled | with public sewer gas and aspirations to get | on the police force, and we snail nays e lhe \ contention in every quarter, and street and \ saloon fights, and circuses and inauguration \ baIIs,a and doctors bills and hundreds of ways | in which to spend our meagre incomes that | are unknown to the trontiersman and then we shall have to advance the price Of furn1- ture, but until all these things come to pass: we shall continue business on the same old i lines, but all joking aside, we should like to have you consider for a moment the many l 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. | Opposite Union Depot, Hawley-
 vile, Conn.