The Newtown bee., 1893-03-31
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 d manufac turing concern in the far West:
 "Dear Sir--We have written to you several times, urging you to put in small line of our specialtieS. Have received no reply. We sell to only one concern in place. If we do not now hear from 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 we read It. But come to look around, the "other promi nent furniture houses didn't show up worth cent. We followed out in our minds eye all the main thoroughtares, cross streets and DoulcVards in our town, north, east, south and west, tor miles and miles. and positively 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; Iutely nothing. south to Taunton lake and naught there but bullheads and suckers West cen to Danbury; beautiful and grand historic old Danbnry. ,,p the place where 4 Washington fla crossing of the Brandywine, drove the Hes sians back from the heights and pointed out we are not mistaken). Here! thank goodness, the spell was broken lots of furniture houses and more bullheads and sqc-no. no, we ed to say it because one Of those tel- lows over there said something mean about us the other day, just because OUT furniture wagon is delivering many goods through their streets, but you can see that we haven't laid it up again st 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 monopoly we are having at Haw leyVille. Won't someone please hold us in. What 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 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 a 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 temDter or must we, now that our eyes are opened, continue to suffer and pose aska martyr to our principles? We came to this wild region, thinking that we could buy and sell and commune with nature in rural sim plicity and peace. far from the temptations, turmoil and strte of the bustling city and now must these barren and rock-ribbed hills and valleys be the direct cause of undermining our principles? We get occasionally, howev- CT, letters calculated to send the blood cOufS- ing back ward through our veins + sent, e1d no no in check. The following is copy of one just received:
 "Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur i am goen for To Be fnarrid and i Want too Bed sutes and a bed Stid and hetch1n chars And Tabel can git ful oak Sutes Complete polished At winsfed for ten Dollars i hear you are selling cheap if 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 keep down this tendency to take advantage of the tremendous corner and monopoly we have at Hawleyville.
 Without any joking we have stock ot furniture that it will pay you to come and see.
 And we can now supply you with carpets as W ell as furniture.
 We do all kinds of upholstering, making over hair mattresses etc.