The Newtown bee., 1893-04-14
we N ever

BULLY realized what corner and tremen- I dous monopoly we have ot the furniture business at Hawleyville, until we just re- ceived the following letter from manutac turing concern in the far West:
 "Dear Sir-We have written to you several times, urging you to put in 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 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 the main thoroughtares cross streets and Doulevards in our town, north, east, south and could not find them. Away north past the great frog ponds and across the roaring Ousa- to the old historic hunting grounds of Pom peraug and Nonnewaug, even beyond the shores Ot quasSapaug; nothing there, aDSo. lutely nothing. South to Taunton lake and naught there but bullheads and suckers. West cen to Danbury; 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 we 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. eve were tempt 1 ed to say it because one of those fel- | lows over there said something mean about us the other day, just because our furniture wagon is delivering so many goods through | tnGlr streets, put you can see UlldL we HdNou | 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 l we call things by their right names). Good- ness, what monopoly we are having at flaw | leyville. Won't someone please hold us in. | What temptation to fall from our princi- | ples and go to marking things right up to | Bridgeport, Danbury, Waterbury and New | Haven prices. Human nature is weak and | the devil places tempting morSels and special stumbling blocks in everybody's way. Now l we might be able to resist the temptation to break into the Hawleyville national bank, or
 run for mayor or alderman, tor 1t takes brave man and hardened criminal to do those | things, but won't some one please come right | away quick and start another furniture store l right along side of us, before we give ill 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 | sell and commune with nature in rural sim | plicity and peace, far from the temptations | turmoil and strife of tie 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- l ing backward through our veins Sent, no | doubt as especial dispensations" to hold us
 in check. The following is copy of one just
 Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur am goen tor To Be mario and Want too Bed
 1dS And Tabe abe can can git 'i ful Oak sutes Complete
 polished At winsted for ten Dollars 1 hear hear Come an sea You Drect to me Thomas - 1 Bristol Con
 | Frequent missives ot this kind will doubt less disabuse us ot 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 Of 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 uphoistering, making
 over hair mattresses etc.