The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-10-07
Just One Year Ago W e
Started the Furn-
ture Business in
Hawleyville

NOW Hawleyville as a railrord center has
~ stood almost without an equal in the Nut
meg state tor years. No man can desire bet
ter facilities for the distribution OF freight to
all points OF the compass and no point is SO
easy OF access TO the travelling public as Haw
leyVille. Everyone comedies this and yet our
venture here was one year ago looked upon
as the crazy act of a lunatic. Why? Simply
because people gave it but a passing thought
and applied the general rule that u large and
successful business could be maintained only
in the center OF a large and growing town.
The town hasn't got there yet, but 1t is SOL
emn truth that the descendants of Adam al
most to a man q would have said woman had
dared) like to go away from home to trade
You know it, your mother knows 1t and your
grandmother knows it. Dealers know 1t and
fight againstit. They preach to you the duties
of patronizing home Industries and they dis
counted the brilliancy OF James q. Blaine by
harpiug upon the duties and benefits of reci-
procity long before he was born, but the stub
sQrn tact remains that when you buya parlor
to ana cabinet or a side-board you do want
friends witfirive to surprise and please your
from the ones they unique designs different
ed in the show windowsseen so long display
You bear your dealers no i'll wlur own town.
that unique design and you are golfiYou want
it if it is to be found anywhere Wlthln a rye
sonable distance Now this Is Just the reason ia a1
of trade. No point was ever better calculated
for it than our location opposite the Union ae
tant rather than local trade, and an exam.
inution of our books will show that out OF
each carload OF bedroom suits hardly any two
OF the same pattern goes to the same town.
They are scattered all over the State and we
are Selling lots of goods to be shipped 100 ana
200 miles away. This is just as 1t shoni0 De
and ius What we have been striving for When
you select article OF furniture at HaWley-
VILE, you are pretty sure to get somethlns =
that Your town has not been hooded Win.
Now about prices. We are here to sell gooas
at a living commission. Are making no clap
trap offers to sell goods at half price or less
than cost. Are selling no chairs at S6, reduced
from $I1, etc. Neither do they who SO adVer-
tise. We are Offering no low priced leaders as
bait for a larger deal, have never quoted the
price of single article in our advertising col
umns. We make no claims tor shrewdness
or superior business methods above our lei
| lows. We calculate that we Duy our gooas
right, but SO do others. we smoke low priced
| cigars, drink no very strong lemonade ana we
| think attend pretty strictly to business,out SO
| do scores of other furniture dealers, SO there
| is only one reason in the world whyswe can
| do better by you than many others. we do
| claim, most emphatically, that the many ad
vantages of our location enables us 10 handIe
| a large and fine class of goods upon smaller
commission than can any other furniture man
| in the State of Connecticut, don't care II he
drinks the very thinnest kind of lomonade
| and smokes grapevlnes. we own our ii puia
| ings and have no rent to pay Land, Du1id
ings, insurance and taxes are extremely low
at this point Cars are unloaded i1ght lnte
our warerooms. No carriage elthef IN feceiv
ing or shipping, don't even keep q morse ane
have no outside expenses. Wnne we ENJOY
| much better freight and passenger accom-
modations than any city can can give us, W.
avoid all those city expenses. That's why
people come such long distances to buy Ou
| goods. The many ffattefing notices ana crltl
cisms you have seen in the State papers have
not one of them been paid ads or puffs, no
called out by any Suggestion or feauesI
that our stock and business warrants VIVA
has been said about it, but we shall be please'
to have you call and see tor yourself AM
don't forget to make free use OF our waltlna
and reading rooms when waiting over at Haw
leyVille for trains