The Newtown bee., 1892-08-12
TO MONOPOLIZE.

Webster says, is to engross or obtain by any man the exclusive right to trade at any cer- i toying at present monopoly of the furniture business at Hawleyyille. Can't find another furniture dealer there. You may hunt rom the first ward to the fifteenth, from capltoI hill 10 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 immense monopoly, and while the country rings with angry cries of down Witn
 trusts ana m monapoes nc 15 aoesns to werk 'a,,s a,e
 hocking in from all directions to buy furnl-
 ture of Baker. the Monopolist.
 silver lining has it's clond." We are in deep
 sorrow this morning. We hear the sound of
 ming min % to grow. W Nowthis o. % 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 (our optimistic friends said II, it
 of pessimistic turn of mind said we
 might safely count on 1t till "Gabriel
 @ his a HsEe in ds eneh
 city lite, we thought we could buy and sell
 and commune with nature, and not be troub-
 polished oak sideboards and mahogany milk
 ingstoo1s. Why, when we opened business 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
 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 Ambufg and Mir Fore
 paugh passed through here and all our able bodied hunters in Danbury attending cir
 GUS. Everything was carried on here ill 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 leading to the north frog pond. City ordinan. ces have been passed regulating the dump ing of engine fire boxes. Freight conductors swear in a low breath. Train hands spit on the floor of the ladies' waiting room in the un are closed. The sound of the saw and ham, mer is heard in no less than five different To- calities. A vision of a 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- 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 I 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 moftgaged 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 will not find any "before the fiood'' pat terms in our stock. We do not buy articles of furniture because they are cheap unless they are pretty. We have q large and growing de them. Calli at our reading room while wait ing tor the train and when you become wea- ry Of reading. look outfh front window and "see the wheels go round." -.s~ .rr |