The Newtown bee., 1892-08-05
: TO MONOPOLIZE,

Webster says, is to engross or obtain by any
 man the exclusive right to trade at any cer tain point,so according to Webster we are on toying at present monopoly of the furniture business at Hawleyville. Can't ind another
 ae % ward deaef to e hen l hill to the gas works and away down by the | great frog ponds, and Bakers is the only fur | niture establishment on the line. Just think
 what an immense monopoly, and while the | country rings with angry cries ot down with l trusts and monopolies, it doesn't work thai
 way at all at Hawleyville. Customers are | docking in from all directions to buy furni
 ture of Baker the Monopolist.
 | course this is very pleasing, but "evefy 1 silver lining has its clond." We are in deep
 sorrow this morning. We hear the sound of
 ming to grow. Now this is too bad. We came
 away out here last year, bought land and put
 orable that we might be able to conduct our
 business in rural simplicity tor number of
 years at least tour optimistic friends said n it of a pessimistic turn of mind said we
 might safely count on it till Gabriel l far from the hum, hustle and wickedness of l city lite, we thought we could buy and sell and commune with nature, and not be tronb- | led with the demands of the city buyers for ! polished oak sideboards and mahogany milk ingstools. Why, when we opened business | be seen in all directions from our office win dows, towering their stately forms high into constant cry of the wild crow and the profane New England freight conductor. We have seen bears deer, antelope, book and tree agents, pole cats and wild turkeys within
 easy rife range of our front door. This was, however, when Mir Van Amburg and MT Fore paugh passed through here and all our able bodied hunters in Danbury attending cir GUS. Everything was carried on here in rural and reckless simplicity and ease. New Eng land freight engines dumped their coal ashes in our front yard and squirted red hot water into our flower beds, but now in less than one buildings are going up right on the COW path leading to the north frog pond. City ordinan- ces have been passed regulating the dump ing of engine fire boxes. Freight conductors swear in q low breath. Train hands spit on the floor ot the ladies' waiting room in the un ion depot only when the office or outer doors are closed. The sound of the saw and ham, mer is heard in no less than five different To- calities. vision Of q future city looms up before us filled with vile smells from leaking gas pipes or death from live wires or busted water mains. City taxes, abscond1ng cash the face. Some other fellow is liable to come in and start an opposition furniture store and "run us into the ground" but no, he dare not do that, tor he knows that we would get out in our might and our linen duster and just mop the floor with him; but until all these things come to pass and the city is incorporat- ed and the court house mortgaged we are go- ing to keep right OF selling furniture at the same old Hawleyville prices. Our stock is growing finer and more select every day. You win not find any "before the flood" pat terms in our stock. We do not buy articles of furniture because they are cheap unless they are pretty. We have a large and growing de- them. Cali in at our reading room while wait ing for the train and, when you become wea- ry Of reading. look out the front window and "See the wheels go round."