The Newtown bee., 1893-10-13
Just Two Years Ago
 To-day

A& W ~&\Sxy
 we opened up the furniture business at Flaw
 leyville 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 ot egotism. The severe
 and adverse criticism called out at the time
 by the fine stock ot goods we put in at this small, OutOf-the-w place" is yeu fresh in
 your minds. We established reputation far
 and wide for. being crank ot the first magni-
 ity used 8 word that sounded like damphooI, which we presume meant something bad, but
 as we never could find the word or it's mean. ing in Webster we never laid it, up against them. The people at that time did not fully realize the many advantages of Hawleyville as a railroad center. Furniture is a bulky ar tlcle Ot merchandise, requiring an almost un. limited amount of space tor the storage and sultaDle d1Splay or 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 net expensive building and one which we think every one toe day comedies is admirably adapted to the handling of furni- ture. Our main show room is one Of +he nrat tiest in the state,nCt excepting the cities We put in @ large and carefully selected stock at the start and have been gradually jncrea sino and improving it in quality and design unff1 we now have a stock that is attracting buyers Tn village and city aI1k from every part of the state, not casual and accidental buyers as they were at first, but those who come long distances for the express purpose of buying, little out of the ordinary, to select from and at prices below what the city dealer, strug- gling uNdericity expenses, can sell.
 | Cars are uniOaded directly into our ware rooms. We have no trucking to hire, either in receiving or sending out goods. Railroad l tracks radfate from Hawleyvile in all direc- l tions. Our men attend personally to the load l ing ofgoods, and there are but few points with 1 in 50 miles where we cannot send goods | straight to destination without change of cars | Risk of injury and breakage is therefore so
 sIlght 1 that we guarantee sate delivery and pay | Owning the land and buildings, we have no l exOrbltantrentS to pay. Taxes are extremely
 low. NO cartage and no extra handling and | marr1Dg Of furniture, our expenses, as anyone | can see, are infinitesimal1y small as compar- 1 ed with theicity ways Of doing business. No 1 similar concern of any size in the state can 1 conform to circumstances or hard times and l reduce expenses to the minimum as readily 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 l to sell goods at cost or half price, and never 1 have to truAnpnp any hocus pocus reason for doingit. We,are in the business to "buy and sell and get galn," but not at the sacrifice of reputation. Wenever advertiseda low priced l leader as bait to pave the way for the sale of 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 do | honest, nor better than our fellow men and competitors, and do not claim to be endow ed with any superior business methods, but we Ido claim most emphatically that we have many advantages of location that are silently working and counting steadily and faithfully even though that location be away out in, the howling wilderness among the rail trees and the frog ponds and pollywog hatcheries ot l Hawleyyille. The above are no Jokes; they are cold facts presented for the con nsideration l Of thoughtful buyers. In conclusion we are l willing now to acknowledge that our start here was, as many said, something of a ven ture, but we thought we could see our way clear to the building up of a successful busi- ness, and now at the close of two years stead fly increasing patronage we know you will 1pafdon usI Ii we say i,1 somewhat of an exul. l tant spiritthat we now kiiow we made no mis- take and we can only look back to the two yoars tlat are past and the social and business eonneoTlon and aequa1ntanees we have made l In city and country jar and near, with feeling of lntensel sati ction and pleasure.+ Our cup lot happiness is full,not simply from pecuni- ary standpoint, but because our business re
 lations have all been so very pleasant,
 l A, 0. BAKER, e.I ,',.. '+ New Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Unior