The Newtown bee., 1893-03-24
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 BULLY realized what corner and tremen- T 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 q small line Of our specialties. Have received no reply. We sell to only one concern in place. If we do the entire sale of our goods to some other prominent furniture house in your town"
 Goodness gracious, wasn't we scared, ana didn't our hair stand on end when we read IL. But come to look around, the "other prom1- nent furniture houses didn't show up worth a the main thoroughtares, cross streets and boulevards in our town, north, east, south and west, for miles and miles. and positively could not find them. Away north past the great frog ponds and across the roaring Ousa- 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 naught there but bullheads and suckers West cen to DanDury; beautiful and grand historic 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 df 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 ed to say it because one of those fel- lows over there said something mean aDout us the other day, just because our furniture wagon is delivering many goods through their streets, but you can see that we haven't laid it up again 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 monopoly we are having at Flaw ieyviIe Won't someone please hold us in. What temptation to fall from our princl- pies and go to marking things right up to Haven prices. Human nature Is weak and th6-devil places tempting morsels and special stumbling blocks in in eyeryP6dys pod wayt yt,oN Mow to break into the Hawleyville national bank, or run for mayor or alderman, for 1t takes a 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 are opened, continue to suffer and pose asa.a martyr to our principlesr We came to th1s 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 the bustling city and now must these barren and rock-ribbed hills and valleys be the direct cause Of undermining CT, letters calculated to send the blood cours- ing backward through our veins Sent, no doubt, as especial dispensations" to hold us i ill check. The following is copy of one just
 "Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur am goen tor To Be marrid and Want too Bed sutes and 8 bed Stid and Ketchin chars 1 And Tabel can git ful oak Sutes Complete l polished At winsted for ten Dollars l hear l y0u are Sel1DR cneap II Gan Qo DcttcT VIII Come an sea You Drect to me Thomas - Bristol Con
 | do You pay The treit bil And Tickets, | Freouent missives ot 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 al Hawleyyille.
 1 Without any joking we have | stock ot furniture that it will pay you to come l 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.