The Newtown bee., 1892-07-29
= :. TO MONOPOLIZE,

Webster says, is to engross or obtain by any tain point,so according to Webster are en- toying atpresent a monopoly of tue furniture business at Hawleyville. Can't find another the first ward to the fifteenth, from capitol hill to the gas works and away down by the great frog ponds, and Bakers is the only fur nture establishment on the line. Just think what an immense monopoly, and while the country rings with angry cries ot down with trusts and monopoies, it doesn't work that at all at Hawleyville. Customers are fiocking in from all directions to buy turni- ture of Baker the Monopolist. .
 o course this is very pleasing, but "eVery silver lining has its clond." We are in deep sorrow this morning. We hear the sound Ot ming to grow. Now, this is too bad. We came away out here last year, bought land and put up buildings. The chances seemed quite fav- orable that we might be able to conduct our business in rural simplicity for number of years at least tour optimistic friends said it would ia76 rr years nf n,na and fhose . might safely count on it till "Gabriei blowed his horny. Here in this quiet nook, far from the hum, bustle and wickedness of city life, we thought we could buy and sell and commune with nature, and not be tronb- led with the demands of the city buyers tor polished oak sideboards and mahogany milk ingstools. Why, when we opened busines here last September great forest trees could be seen in all directions from our office win dows. towering their stately forms high into the blue ozone, and we could hear the almost constant cry of the wild crow and the protane
 
 seen bears, deer, antelope, book and tree agents, pole cats and wild turkeys within easy rifle range Of our front door. This was, however, when MT Van Amburg and Mir Fore paugh passed through here and all our able bodied hunters in Danbury attending cir 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 little short year how changed. A number Of buildings are going up right on the COW path 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 u 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, absconding cash iers and municipal extravaganza stare us in the tace. 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 on 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 large and growing de mand for fine goods and we are going tOk keep them. Call in at our reading room while wait ing for the train and, when you become wea ry ot reading. look out the front window and ''see the wheels go round."