The Newtown bee., 1893-10-06
Just Two Years Ago
 Today

we opened up the furniture business at flaw 1 leyville and if we now take advantage of this | anniversary to call attention to a few facts concerning the business, we trust ii will not | smack too strongly Ot egOtism. The severe | and adverse criticism called out at the time | by the fine stock Ot goods we put ill at this l "small out Ot-the way place" is yen fresh in | your minds. We established reputation far | and wide for being a crank Of the first ma gli- | tude; and some wicked sinners among the la | ity used word that sounded like damphOOl, l which we presume meant something bad, but 1 aS we never could find the word or its mean ing in Webster we never laid it up against them. The people at that time did not fully l realize the many advantages ot HaWleyVille as railroad center. Furniture is a bulky ar ticle Ot merchandise, requiring an almost un- limited amount of space tor the storage and suitable display of large stock. We bought and at low figure right in front of the Union depot and erected on the siding a large and commodlous but not expensive building and one which we think everyone to day comedies is admirably adapted to the handling Ot furnl- ture. Our maln show room Is one of the pret- tiest in the state,not excepting the cities. We put in large and carefully selected stock at the start and have been gradually increasing and improving it in quality and design until we now have stock that is attracting buyers in village and city alike from every part Of the ! state, not casual and accidental buyers, as | they were at first, but those who come long l distances for the express purpose of huying 1 just because we have a fine and tasty stock, a | Iitue out Of the ordinary, to select from, and i s.t prices below what the city dealer, strug- i gling under city expenses can sell
 Cars are unlOaded directly into ware rooms. We have no trucking to hire; either | in receiving or sending out goods. Railroad 1 tracks radate from HawleyVille in all direc- 1 tiOns. Our men attend personally to the load l ing of goods, and there are but few points with | in 50 miles where we cannot send goods | straight to destination without change of cars. Risk Of injury and breakage is therefore l slight that we guarantee sate delivery and pay | all freight charges.
 Owning the land and buildings, we have no | exorbitant rents to pay. Taxes are extremely 1 low. No carriage and no extra handling and marriDg of furniture, our expenses, as anyone can see are infinitesimally small as conipar- | a1 1IUith O lnjnp | similar concern of any size in the state can conform to circumstances hard times and reduce expenses to the minimum as readily as we can. We pay all our bills promptly the day they tall due, and we mean to buy at the not a back number in it. We do not advertise to sell goods at cost or halt price, and never have to trump up any hocus pocus reason for doing it. We are in the business to "buy and sell and get gain," but not at the sacrifice of reputation WeneVer adVertlseda low priced leader as bait to pave the way for the sale Of l something else at high price. We have no | special bargains, they are all consistent one with another ana are marked to pay a IlVlng | cOmmi issiOn, but please take notice that some dealers would starVe to death and fill a pau perss grave on our living commission. Wed0 not claim to be any smarter, shrewder more honest, nor better than our fellow men and competitors and do not claim to be endow ed
 with any superior business methods, but we do claim most cmphatically that we have many advantages of location that are silently
 working and counting steadily and faithfully in our favor as the months and years go by, even though that location be away out in the
 
 the frog ponds and polywog hatcheries ot
 Hawleyville. The above are no jokes; they
 are cold facts presented for the consideration
 of thoughtful buyers. In conclusion we are
 willing now to acknowledge that our start , here was, as many said, something of ven J ture, but we thought could way
 clear to the building up Of a successful busi
 ness, and now at the close of two years stead fly increasing patronage we know you will
 pardon us if we say in somewhat of an exul
 tant spirit that we now know we made no nis D take and we can only look back to the two years that are past and the social and business
 connection and acquaintances we have made
 in city and country far and near, with a feeling
 of intense satisfaction and pleasure. Our cur
 of happiness is full,not simply from pecun1
 ary standpoint, but because our business re
 lations have all been very pleasant,
 , A. c. BAKER,
 New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Unior ] Depot, Hawleyville Conn.