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

EULLY realized what corner and tremen- I dous monopoly we have of 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 a small line ot our specialties. Have received no reply. We sell to only one concern in place. Ii we do not now hear rom you promptly we will give prominent furniture house in your town"
 Goodness gracious, wasn't we scared, and didn't our hair stand on end when we read it. 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 ill 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 ('tBerkshire" in the new version) east to the old historic hunting grounds of Pom Shores Shores ot quassapaug; nothing there, abso- lutely nothing. South to Taunton lake and cen to Danbury; beautiful and grand historic old Danbury, the place where Washington fought 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 (if we are not mistaken). Here, thank goodness, and more bullheads and suc-no, no, we didn't mean to say that. eve were tempt 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 u monopoly we are having at flaw leyville. Won't someone please hold us in What a temptation to fall from our prlnci ples and go to marking things right up to Bridgeport, Danbury, Waterbury and New Haven prices. Human nature is weak and the devil places tempting morsels and special stumbling blocks in everybody's way. Now we might be able to resist the temptation to break into the Hawleyville national bank, or run for mayor or alderman, tor it 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 right along side of us, before we give in to the tempter, or must we, now that our eyes martyr to our principles? We came to this wild region, thinking that we could buy and plicity and peace. far from the temptations turmoil and strife of the bustling city and now must these barren and rock-rlbbed hills and valleys be the direct cause of underminlng our principles? WeGet occasionally, howev- CT, letters calculated to send the blood cours- ing backward through our veins Sent no doubt, especial dspensations" to hold us in check. The following is a copy Of one just
 "Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur am goen tor To Be marrd and Want too Bed sutes and a bed Stid and Ketchin chars
 polished At winsted for ten Dollars i hear you are selling cheap if i Can do Better will Come sea You Drect to me Thomas - Bristol Con do You pay The freit hil And Tickets Frequent missives of this kind will doubt less disabuse us 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 ioking-~we have a
 stock ot furniture that it will pay you to come and sec
 And we can now supply you with carpets as well as furniture. We do all kinds of upholStering, making over hair mattresses etc.