The Newtown bee., 1893-11-03
Just Two Years Ago
 To-day

we opened mp the furniture business at flaw
 leyville and if we now take advantage of this anniversary to call attention to few facts concerning the business, we trust il 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 in at this "small, out of the-way place" is yen fresh in your minds. We established a reputation far and wide for being 8 crank Of the first magni- tude; and some wicked sinners among the la ity used word that sounded like damphool, which we presume meant something bad, but is we never could find the word or it's mean
 ing in Webster we never laid it up against them. The people at that time did not fully realize the many advantages of Hawleyville as a railroad center. Furniture is a bulky ar ticle Ot merchandise, requiring an almost un-
 limited amount of space for the storage and
 suitable display of large stock. We bought and at a low figure right in front ot the Union
 depot and erected on the siding large and
 connections but not expensive building and
 one which we think everyone today comedies
 is admirably adatatedt to the handling Ot furnl-
 ture Our main snow. room IS one Of the pt sst-
 tiGst in the State,nOt excepting the cities. We
 put in q large and carefully selected stock at
 the start and have been gradually increasing
 and improving 1t i'll quality and design until
 now have a stock that is attracting buyers
 in village and city alike from every part Ot the
 state, not casual and accidental buyers, as they were at first, but those who come long distances for the express purpose of buying, just because we have fine and tasty stock, little out of the ordinary, to select from, and at prices below what the city dealer, strug- gling under city expenses, can sell
 Cars are unloaded directly into our ware rooms. We have no trucking to hire, either | in receiving or sending out goods. Railroad l tracks radiate from Hawleyville in all direc- 1 ti0ns. Our men attend personally to the load 1 ing OfgOOds and there are but few points with j in 50 miles where cannot send goods l straight to destination without change Of cars Risk Of injury and breakage is therefore so l slight that we guarantee safe delivery and pay | all freight charges.
 l Owning the land and buildings, we have no 1 exorbitant rents to pay. Taxes are extremely l low. No carriage and no extra handling and I marring of furniture, our expenses, as anyone can see, are infnitesimally small as compar- 1nf fITNYN tI similar concern of any size in the state can il conform to circumstances or hard times and reduce expenses to lhe nlnlmum as readily as we can. We pay all our bills promptly the day they fall due, and we mean to buy at the very bottom. Our stock is all new and fresh. not back number in 1t. 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 advertised low priced leader as bait to pave the way for the sale of something else at a high price. We have no i special bargains, they are all consistent one ! with another and are marked to pay living
 commission, but please take notice that some
 dealers would starve to death and fill pau per, s grave on our living commission. We do not claim to be any smarter, shrewder, more | honest, nor better than our fellow men and | C competitors, and do not claim 10 be endowe ed
 with any superior business methods, but we ! do claim most emphatically that we have H many advantages of location that are silently K working and counting steadily and faithfully Ian favor as the months and years go by, N eSaen though that location be away out in the II bowling wilderness among the tall trees and k the arog ponds and pollywog hatcheries o1 II EIawieyvflle. The above are no jokes; they ! are cold facts presented for the consideration I of thoughtful buyers. In conclusion we are willing now to acknowledge 1nat our starr I here was, as many said, something of ven ;I ture, but we thought we could see our way Il clear to the building up of a successful Dusl \ ness. and now at the close Of two years stead 4 fly Increasing patronage know you will 1 pardon ii say in somewhat of an exul
 I tant spirit that we DOW know made no mls iI take and we can only look back to the two 4 years that are past and the social and business I connection and acquaintances we have made il in city and country tar and near, with feeling Y ot intense satisfaction and pleasure. Our cur
 of happiness is full,not simply from < pecuni z, ary standpoint but because business re T lations have all been very pleasant.
 1 A, c. BAKER,
 Il New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Unsof Depot, Hawleyville. Conn.