The Newtown bee., 1893-10-20
Just Two Years Ago
 Today

&O-NACO,y
 we opened up the furniture business at flaw leyVille and if we now take advantage of this anniversary to call attention to a few facts concerning the business, we trust it will not smack too strongly Ot egOtism. The severe and adverse criticism called out at the time by the fine stock Ot goods put ill at this "small, out Ot-the- way place" is yen fresh in your nlndS. We established reputation far and wide for being crank Ot 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 as we never could find the word or it's mean ing in Webster we never laid if m apainst them. The people at that time did not fully realize the many advantages of HawleyVille as railroad center. Furniture is a bulky ar ucle of merchandise, requiring an almost un- limited amount of space tor the storage and suitable display ot a large stock. We bought and at a low figure right in front of the Union depot and erected on the siding a large and cOmmOdiOuS but not expensive building and one which we think everyone to day comedies 1 Is admirably adapted to the handling Of furnI- | ture. Our main show room is one of the Dret- tiest in the state, not excepting the cities. We 1 put in a large and carefully selected stock at | the start and have been gradually increasing and improving it in quality and design until ! we now have a stock that is attracting buyers | in village and city alike from every part of the 1 state, not casual and accidental buyers as l they were at first, but those who come long l distances for the express purpose of buying, just because we have fine and tasty stock, a l little out of the ordinary, to select from, and at prices below what the cly dealer, strug- gling under city expenses, can sell.
 1 Cars are unlOaded directly into ware l rooms. W C nave no IfucK1ng to nlrG, either l Tn receiving or sending out goods Railroad | tracks radiate from Hawleyville in all direc tons. Our men attend personally to the load | ing OfgoOds, and there are but few points with | in 90 miles where we cannot send goods | straight to destination without change of cars. | Risk Of injury and breakage is therefore so 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 | low. No carriage and no extra handling and marring of furniture, our expenses, as anyone can see are infinitesimally small compar- ed with the city ways of doing business. No similar concern of any size in the state can conform to circumstances or hard times and reduce expenses to the minimum readily as we can. We pay all our bills promptly the day they tall due, and we mean to buy at the very bottom. Our stock is all new and fresh, 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 al the sacrifice of leader as bait to pave the way for the sale ot something else at high price. We have no
 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 a pau
 perss grave on our living commission. We dc
 not claim to be any smarter, shrewder, more
 honest, nor better than our fellow men anG
 competitors, and do not claim to be endow eG
 with any superior business methods, but we
 do claim most emphatiCally that have
 many advantages Of location that are silently
 working and counting steadily and faithful
 in our favor as the months and years go by
 even though that location be away out in the
 bowling wilderness among the tall trees and
 the frog ponds and pOllyWog hatcherieS O
 HawleyVille. The above are no jokes; they
 are cold facts presented for the con sideratior
 of thoughtful buyers. In conclusion arc , willing now to acknowledge that our star here was, many said, something of a ven
 ture, but thought we could see our way
 clear to the building up ot a successful busi
 ness, and now at the close of two years stead fly Increasing patronage we know you vii pardon us if we say in somewhat of an exul 3. tant spirit that now know we made no mis take and we can only look back to the two
 years that are past and the social and bushes 1 connection and acquaintances we have mad,
 in city and country jar and near, with feelins | of intense satisfaction and pleasure. Our cul 1 of happiness is full mot simply from pecuni ary standpoint, but because our business re
 lations have all been so very pleasant.
 A. G. BAKER.