The Newtown bee., 1893-03-10
we Never

EULLY realized what corner and tremen- II dous monopoly we have of the furniture business at HawlCyYille, 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 a small line of our speciaIties. 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, ana didn't our hair stand on end when we read 1t. 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, for miles and miles. and positively could not find them. Away north past the great frog ponds and across the roaring Ousa- tonic c'Berk shire' in the new versionl east to the old historic hunting grounds of Pom peraug and Nonnewaug, even beyond the shores ot quassapaug; nothing there, aDso
 utedy & 9oTih a3 a a%se wast cen to Danbury; beautiful and grand historic old Danbury,, the place where Washington crossing of the Brandywine, drove the Hes sians back from the heights and pointed out 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 about 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 temptation to fall from our princi- pies and go to marking things right up to Haven prices. Human nature is weak and the devil places tempting morsels and special stun mbling blocks in everybody's way. Now W. njUht he able resist the tpmDtatlOn to break into the Hawleyville national bank, or run for mayor or alderman, tor 1t takes a brave man and hardened criminal to do those things, but won't some one please come right away quick and start another furniture store the tempter, or must we, now that our eyes are opened continue to suffer and pose asEa wild region, thinking that we could buy and sell and commune with nature in rural sim plicity and peace, far from the temptations, 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 special dispens sations" to hold us in check. The following is a copy of one just received:
 "Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur i am goen tor To Be marrid and i Want too Bed sutes and bed Stid and Ketchin chars And Tabel can git ful oak Suites Complete polished At winsted for ten Dollars i hear you are selling cheap if Can do Better will Come an sea You Drect to me Thomas - Bristol Con
 do You pay The freit bil And Tickets Frequent missives ot this kind will doubt less disabuse 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 ot furniture that it will pay you to come and see.
 And we can now supply you with carpets as ell as furniture.
 We do all kinds of upholstering, making over hair mattresses etc.