The Newtown bee., 1892-08-19
:. TO MONOPOLIZE,

Webster says, is to engross or obtain by any man the exclusive right to trade at any cer- toying at present 8 monopoly of the furniture business at Hawleyvillc. Can't find another furniture dealer there You may hunt from 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 of down with trusts and monopolies, 1t doesn't t work that way at all at HawleyvilIe. Customers are Hooking in from all directions to buy furni- ture of Baker, the Monopolist.
 silver lining has Ii its cfonpd." We are in deep sorrow this morning. We hear the sound of the hammer and the saw. The town is begin away out here last year. bought land and put up buildings. The chances seemed quite tav- orable that we might be able to conduct our business in rural Simplicity for number of years at least (our optimistic friends said it would last 99 years and those might safely count on it till Gabriel bIowed 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 troub- led with the demands of the city buyers for polished oak sideboards and mahogany milk lngstoolS. Why, when we opened busin ess 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 New EnSlanu IfelBnL cOnuuclof. we nave seen bears, deer. antelope, book and tree agents, pole eats and wild turkeys within easy rife range of our front door. This was, however, when Mir Van Amburg and Mir 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 little short year how changed. A number Of buildings are going up right on the COW path n.J Fin inan 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 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 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 iers and municipal extravaganza stare us in the face. Some other fellow is liable to come in and start opposition furniture store and run us into the ground" but no, he dare not do that, for 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 isincorporat- ed and the court house mortgaged we are go same old Hawleyville prices. Our stock is growing finer and more select every day You will not find any "before the fl0oan 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. 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 s'see the wheels go round."