The Newtown bee., 1893-04-07
we Never

BULLY realized what a corner and tremen- dons monopoly we have ot the furniture business at Hawleyville, until 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 the entire sale of our goods to some other prominent furniture house in your town"
 Goodness gracious, wasn't we scared, and didn't our hair stand on end when read it. 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 could not find them. Away north past the great frog ponds and across the roaring Ousa- tonic (''Berk shire" in the new version) east to the old historic hunting grounds of Pom peraug and Nonnewaug, even beyond the shores ot quassapaug; nothing there, abso; naught there but bullheads and suckers. West cen to Danbury; beautiful and grand historic old Danbury, the place where Washington thought 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 Qf are not mistaken). Here, thank goodness, the spell was broken; lots of furniture houses and mere bullheadS and suc-nO, no, we didn't mean to say that. (We were tempt ed to say il because one of those tel lows over there said something mean about us the other day, just because our furniture
 wagon is delivering so many goods through | 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 1n
 What a temptation to fall from our princi- pies 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 IIpNaT Ia run for mayor or alderman, tor it takes
 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 are opened continue to suffer and pose asAa martyr to our principles: We came to thls wild region, thinking that we could buy and sell and commune with nature Tn rural slm- picity and peace. far from the temptations, turmoil and strife of the bustling city and now 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 dispensations" to hold us | in check The following is a copy of one just
 "BristoI Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur i am goen tor To Be marrid and Want too Bed
 And Tabel can git ful oak sntes Complete | 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 bil And Tickets" Frequent misSves Of this kind will doubt | less disabuse us of 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 HawIeyville.
 Without any joking we have a stock of furniture that it will pay you to come
 and see.
 | And we can now supply you with carpets as well as furniture.
 l We do all kinds of upholstering, making l Jf1rya, hair 1aft afc