The Newtown bee., 1893-04-21
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BULLY realized what corner and tremen- II dOus monopoly we have ot the furniture business at Hawleyyille, until we just re- turing concern in the far Vest
 "Dear Sir-We have written to you several times urging you to put in small line Of our specialties. Have received no reply. We sell to only one concern in place. If we do not now hear rom you promptly we will give the 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 west, tor miles and miles. and positively could not find them. Away north past the tonic (''Berk shire" in the new version); east to the old historic hunting grounds of Pom. peraug and Nonnewaug, even beyond the shores Ot quassapaug; nothing there, abso lutely nothing. south to Taunton lake and naught there but bullheads and suckers. West cen to DanOury; 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 eff are not mistaken). Here, thank goodness, the spell was broken; lots of furniture houses and more bullheads and suc-no, no, we didn't mean to say that. (We were tempt lows over there said something mean a bout 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 we feel hurt or get real angry we call things by their right names). Good ness what a monopoly we are having at flaw leyville. Won't someone please hold us in. What a temptation to fall from our princi- pies and go to marking things right up to Bridgeport, Danbury, Waterbury and New Haven prices; Human nature is @ weak 5oai and I'd stumbling blocks in everybody's way. Now might be able to resist the temptation to break into the Hawleyville national bank, or run for mayor alderman, tor it takes 8 brave man and a 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 the tempter, or must we, now that our eyes martyr to our principles? We came to this wild region, thinking that we could buy and plicity and peace, far from the temptations turmoil and strife of the bustling city and now must these barren and rock-riobed bills ana 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 Sent, no doubt, as especial dispensations' to hold us in check. The following is a copy of one just received:
 'EBristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur am gOen for To Be marrid and i Want too Bed sutes and bed Stid and ketchln chars And Tabel i can git fnl oak Sutes Complete polished At winsted for ten Dollars hear you are selling cheap if Can do Better will Come an sea You Drect to me Thomas - Bristol Con
 do You pay The fret bil And Tickets
 Frequent missiyes of this kind will doubt less disabuse us of the idea that we are sell ing too cheap, but in the meantime we shall strive, oh how hard we shall strive, to keep down this tendency to take advantage of the tremendous corner and monopoly we have at Hawleyville.
 Without any joking we have a stock ot furniture that it will pay you to come and see.
 And we can now supply you with carpets as well as furniture.
 We do all kinds of upholstering, making over hair mattresses etc.