The Newtown bee., 1895-08-16
A. G. Bakers Ady't.

Did you ever live on the frontier and have squatters and settlers come in and stake 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 trOntiersman? No? Well then you can 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, a 'tendertoot,"
 fellow from away over the divide had nov ed in and was putting up wagon shop, yes
 sir, a real bonahde wagon shop, r1ght here in settlements, and making noise enough to bring rain and thoroughly stampede all i the big game within five miles of us. It fairly took our breath away to think that an ordi- nary sized man with one suspender broken and no 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 l sanctity of our rural retreat. It reminded us Ot times in the far 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 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 be at
 rest, tar from the maddening throng and the
 tumult and strife Of the settlements. We were so tar out on the frontier at that time that we
 remember one prominent newspaper publish
 ed in nearby saltwater hamlet, called
 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 fur
 niture salesrooms at Hawleyville." 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 it made us
 ache to get out our trusty rifle, yet If 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 ii we had killed anything they
 would have made us whack up with them on
 the meat,and now just think ot 1t we have got
 wagon shop here, and other embiems and
 forerunners Of civilization are creeping in
 and if we do not rise in our own might and
 put them down, we are liable to become
 town, borough, @ city with paved streets, and sidewalks, and stores, and banks, and
 churches, and theatres, and billiard rooms,
 heavy taxes, and bursted water mains, and
 leaky gas pipes, and annual vaccinations
 and we shall have typhoid fever and organ
 grinders, and measles, and our best men will abscond with the public funds, and our near
 est neighbor won't speak to us because we 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 Of Haw1eyville- 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 hava 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 | in which to spend our meagre incomes that are unknown to the trontiersman, and then we shall have to advance the price Of turni- | 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 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.