The Newtown bee., 1893-05-05
we Never

EULLY realized what corner and tremen- II dous monopoly we have of the furniture business at Hawleyville, until we just ceived the following letter from a manutac- turing concern in the far West:
 "Dear Sir-We have written to you several times, urging you to put in a small line ot our specialties. Have received no reply. We sell to only one concern in place. Ii we do not now hear rom you promptly we will give tue entire sale of our goods to some other prominent furniture house in your town"
 Goodness gracious, wasn't we scared, and didn't our hair stand on end when we read it. But come to look around, the "Other promi nent furniture houses didn't show up worth a cent. We followed out in our minds eye all the main thOrOughtares, cross streets and bOulevards in our town, north, east, south and could not find them. Away north past the great frog ponds and across the roaring OuSa- tonlc CBerkShlie III lne ne" version east to the old historic hunting grounds of Pom peraug and NOnnewaug, even beyond the shores of quassapaug; nothing there, abso lutelY nothing. south to TauntOn lake and naught there but bullheads and suckers. West cen to Dapbury; beautiful and grand historic old Danbury. the place where Washington thought and bled" and made that famous crossing of the Brandywine, drove the Hes sians back from the heights and pointed out the future site of the Danbury fair grounds (if we are not mistaken). Here, thank goodness, the spell was broken; lots of furniture houses didn't mean to say that. we were tempt ed to say it because one of those tel lows over there said something mean about us the other day, just because our furniture wagon is delivering so many goods through their streets, but you can see that we haven't laid it up against him. You can always know when we modify our speech that we are not angry, for when feel hurt or get real angry we call things by their right names). Good ness, what q monopoly we are having at flaw leyville. Won't someone please hold us in. What q temptation to fall from our princi- pies and go to marking things right up to Bridgeport, Dunbury, Waterbury and New Haven prices. Human nature IS weak and the devil places tempting mOrselS and special stumbling blocks in everybody's way: Now we might be able to resist the temptation to break into the Hawleyvile national bank, or run for mayor or alderman, for 1t takes 8 | brave man and hardened criminal to do those | things, but won't some one please come right | away quick and start another furniture store | right along side of us, before we give in to l the tempter, or must we, now that our eyes | are opened, continue to suffer and pose ass,a | martyr to our principles2 We came to this wild region, thinking that we could buy and l sell and commune with nature in rural sim plicity and peace. far from the temptations, l turmoil and strife of the bustling city and now must these barren and rock-ribbed hills and | valleys be the direct cause of undermining our principles? We get occasionally, howev- CT, letters calculated to send the blood cours- ing backward through our veins vein a sent, sent no no
 in check. The following is copy of one just | received:
 | "Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur i am | gOen for To Be mario and i Want too Bed
 sutes and a bed Stid and Ketchin chars
 And Tabel can git ful oak Sutes Complete
 polished At winsted for ten Dollars i hear
 you are selling cheap if i Can do Better will Come an sea You Drect to me Thomas -
 
 do You pay The freit bil And Tickets
 Frequent missives ot this kind will doubt less disabuse ot the idea that we are sell ing too cheap, but in the meantime we shal strive, oh how hard we shall strive, to keeI
 down this tendency to take advantage of the tremendous corner and monopoly we have al l Hawleyville.
 Without any joking have g stock ot furniture that it will pay you to come
 and see.
 And we can now snpply you with carpet:
 as well as furniture.
 We do all kinds of upholstering, making
 over hair mattresses etc