The Newtown bee., 1895-08-23
A. G. Bakers Ady't.

| Did you ever live on the frontier and have 1 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 frontiersman? No? We'll then you can hardly appreciate our feelings, when one morning, last week, we heard the sound ot saw and hammer, and upon going out to in, VeSt1gate found new conner, 'tenderfOOt," fellow from away over the divide had nov ed in and was putting up wagon shop, yes sir, real bonatide wagon shop, right here in Hawleyville, just like they have back in the settlements, and making noise enough to
 bring on 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 you can't call it courage, to without leave or liberty from us few settlers, thus invade the
 Of times in the tar West when years ago we occasionally helped move men over into the Winchester rifles when they committed such little breaches Of 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, far from the maddening throng, and the
 tumult and strife of the settlements. We were
 so far 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 sa1esrooms at Hawleyville." You
 have no idea about the wildness of this sec
 tion. 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 elk, and Indians and other large game
 had passed in the night. I tell you it made us
 ache to get out our tTusty 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 i'll st and ii we had killed anything they
 would have made us whaek up with them on
 the meat,an now just think of it we have got
 8 wagon shop here, and other emblems and
 forerunners of civilization are creeping in
 and five do not rise in our own might and
 put them down, we are liable to become a town, a borough, 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 vaccinations and we shall have typhoid lever and organ
 grinders, and measles, and our best men will abscond with the public funds, and our near
 est neighbor Dor 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 ot Hawleyville--
 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 hav5 the deadly live wires, and lawyers,a ,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 10 advance the price of furpi- 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 6 moment the many | advantages ot 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.