The Newtown bee., 1893-03-17
we N ever

EULLY realized what 8 corner and tremen- dous monopoly we have ot the furniture business at Hawleyy1lle, until we Just re- ceived the following letter from a nanulac- turing concern in the far West:
 "Dear Sir-We have written to you several times, urging you to put in small line of our sDecialties. Have received no reply. we sell to only one concern in a place. Ii we do not now hear rom you promptly we-wlii glve the entire sale of our goods to some other prominent furniture house in your town"
 Goodness gracious, wasn't we scared, anu didn't our hair stand on end when we fead II. But come to look around, the "othef pfomi- nent furniture houses didn't show up worth a the main thoroughtares, cross streets ana boulevards in our town, north, east, south ana could not find them. Away north past the great frog ponds and across the roaring ouSa. tonic C'Berkshire" in the new verslon( east to the old historic hunting grounds oI rom, oi peraug and NOnneWaug, even beyond Lne shores ot quassapaug; nothing there, aDso, lutely nothing. south to Taunton lake ana naught there but bullheads and suckers west e en 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 lies sians back from the heights and pointed ouf the future site of the Danbury fair grounds GIT we are not mistaken). Here, thank goodness, the spell was broken; lots of furniture Eouses didn't mean to say that. we were tempt | ed to say it because one of those Tel | us the other day, just because our furniture wagon is delivering so many goods LufouSu | their streets, but you can see that we haven't l 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 ln What temptation to fall rom our prlnfl r1l e. l bridgeport, Danbury, Waterbury ana New Haven prices. Human nature is weak and l the devil places tempting morsels ana speclal l stumbling blocks in every rybody's way. Now we might be able to resist the temptation to 1 break into the Hawleyville national bank, or run for mayor or alderman, tor it takes brave man and hardened criminal to do those things, but won't some one please come Iignt lI l away quick and start another furniture store 1 right along side of us, before we give In 10 I the tempter or must we, now that our eyes eyes 1 martYr to our principles? We came to this | wild region, thinking that V e could buy and l sell and commune with nature in rural slm- | plicity and peace, far from the temptatons, l turmoil and strife of the bustllng city ana now l must these barren and rock-ribbed hills and 1 valleys be the direct cause of undermining our principles? We get occasionally, howey- l er letters calculated to send the blood cours- ing backward through our veins Sent, no l doubt, as especial dispensations" to hold us 1 in check The following is copy of one Just
 "Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur am goen tor To Be mario and Want too Bed
 sutes and bed Stid and Ketch1n chars polished At winsted for ten Dollars heal you are selling cheap if i Can do Better will Come an sea You Drect to me Thomas --
 do You pay The freit bil And Tickets"
 Frequent missives ot 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 keeI
 down this tendency to take advantage of the 1 tremendous corner and monopoly we nave al Fl Hawleyville.
 l Without any joking we have | stock of furniture that it will pay you to come and see.
 And we cannow supply you with carpets as well as furniture.
 We do all kinds of upholstering, making 1 over hair mattresses etc.