The Newtown bee., 1893-04-28
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EULLY realized what a corner and tremen- I dous monopoly we have of the furniture business at H7awieyYli1le uatll we Just re turing concern in the far Vest
 Dear S1r-We have written to yon several times, urging you to put in small line of 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 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 bOulevards in 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 t'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;; utely nothing. South to Taunton lake and 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 we are not u2istaken). Here, thank goodness, the spell was broken; lots of furniture houses and more bullheads and suc-no, no, didn't mean to say that. (We were tempt ed to say it 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 their streets, but you can see that we haven't laid it up against him. You can always know when modify our speech that 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 in. What a temptation to fall from our princi- Bridgeport, Danbury, Waterbury and New Haven prices. Human nature is weak and stumbling blocks in everybody's way. Now we might be able to resist the temptation to break into the Hawleyville national bank, or for mayor alderman, tor it takes a brave man and hardened criminal to do those 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 are opened, continue to suffer and pose asEa martyr to our principles? We came to this wild region, thinking that we could buy and sell and commune with nature in rural sim turmoil and strife of the bustling city and now must these barren and rock-ribbed hills and our principles? We get occasionally, howeY- CT, letters calculated to send the blood cours- ing backward through veins Sent, no doubt, as especial dispensations" to hold us in check. The following IS copy of one just received:
 "Bristol Con Feb 2d 1893 dear sur am goen for To Be marrid and i Want too Bed sutes and bed Stid and Ketchin chars And Tabei can git fql oak sntes Complete 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 of this kind will doubt less disabuSe 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 a stock ot furniture that it will pay you to come and see.
 And we can now supply you with carpets as well as furniture.
 We do all kinds of upholstering, making oyer hair mattresses etc.