The Newtown bee., 1893-09-29
Just Two Years Ago
 Today

opened up the furniture business at Flaw leyvi1le and ii 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 Of egOtism. The severe and adverse criticism called out at the time by the fine stock Ot goods we put in at this "small out Otthe.way place" is yen fresh in your minds. We established reputation far and wide for being a crank of the first magni- tude; and some wicked sinners among the la- ity used word that sounded like damphool, which we presume meant omething bad but as we never could find the word or its mean. ing in Webster never laid it up against them The people at that time did not fully realize the many advantages of uawleyville as a railroad center. Furniture is bulky ar ticle of merchandise, requiring an almost un- limited amount of space tor the storage and suitable display of large stock. We bought and at a low figure right in front of the Union depot and erected on the siding a large and com'nodlous but not expensive building and one which we think everyone today comedies is admirably adapted to the handling ot fu1n1- ture. Our main show room is one of the pret- l 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 | 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 1 they were at first, but those who come long l just because we have fine and tasty stock, 8 1 little out of the ordinary, to select from, and at prices below what the city dealer, strug- ging under city expenses, can sell.
 | Cars are unlOaded directly into our ware D. | rooms. We have no trucking to hire, either in receiving or sending out goods. Railroad l tracks radiate from Hawleyvile in all direc- l tions. Our men attend personally to the load ing of goods, and there are but few points with In 50 miles where 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 as 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 neoace to th9 mn 1 as III , 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 fol
 doing it. We are in the business to "buy anC
 sell and get gain,' but not at the sacrifice O
 reputation. Wenever advertised low priced
 leader bait to pave the way for the sale O
 something else at a high price. We have nc Especial bargains, they are all consistent ont
 with another and are marked to pay a livint
 commission, but please take notice that somi
 dealers would starve to death and fill q pau
 pers grave on our living commission. We
 not claim to be any smarter, shrewder, nor
 honest, nor better than our fellow men ant
 competitors, and do not claim to be endowe'
 with any superior business methods, but W
 do claim most emphatically that we hay
 many advantages ot location that are silent1.
 working and counting steadily and faithful l in our favor as the months and years go by even though that location be away out in tn bowling wilderness among the tall trees an' the frog ponds and pol1ywog hatcheries C | Hawisyville. The above are no jokes; the
 are cold facts presented for the consideratio of thoughtful buyers. In conclusion we ar willing now to acknowledge that our stal
 here was, as many said, something of yer ture, but we thought we could see our wa . clear to the building up of 8 successful bus 7 ness, and now at the close of two years steat 1 fly increasing patronage we know. you wi pardon us ii we say in somewhat of an exu
 tant spirit that we now know we made no mi
 take and we can only look back to the tw
 years that past and the social and bushes
 connection and acquaintances we have mac - in city and country jar and near, with feel1n
 ot intense satisfaction and pleasure. Our GU
 of happiness is full not simply from 8 pecun ary standpoint, but because our business r
 lations have all been so very pleasant.