Connecticut western news., 1894-03-01
The Stock of a General Store.
FULLER & PEET.
The CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS
 Has Got to be Sustained; So Say the Good Men of Canaan.

While suffering from a little bilious attack one day last week we met two aboriginal rea- idents from the land of Canaan. They told us that every business man was bilious who did not adv rtise In tho "Conu. Western News" and they gave us to understand that were it not for the regular periodical pnblica- ton of this paper the sun would stand ntfll the earth Ro flying on Into spaoo the laws of gravitation be upset and tho whole machinery of the universe come to a full stop. I tell you it set us 70 thinking Now 1T this is true (and we have no legal right to doubt the ve actty Of these good men Of CanaAp) it becomes our imperative duty, if we love onr nelghbors aa we ought to advertise in the News" and help support it We advertise quite exten- sivey already and those arc hard times to branch out, but we can't fit quietly by and see the sun turn backyard in Its c,uree, Now there are just three words we would liko 10 impress upon your minda, isL FURNITURE. BAKER, and HAwLEYYTLLE. Perhaps gentle reader you may not know where Haw- leyville is. No1 We'll ita yonr own fsult for she Is right where she always has been and has never tried to skulk nor hide herself. Hawlsyville is built on one of the oldest and ripes sections of land In Nor n America and during tho glacial period she was right in it. She is built on what is known as made lund, 90 Is portion of Chicago. the only florence being that Chicago land has most of 1t been made during the last decade, is change from the original plan aud is made from ba- mama peels, broken down hoop skirts, cigar
 
 eral. what the Hawleyville land was origin ally made frem is a question that has puzzled mystined and paral xed the minds of theoiog- ic Il aud geological students and deep think er- la general for ages, but unlike the Ohlca- 20 land it seems to be an undisputed tact that it was made the same week and from tho eame material that the celebrated and seemingly indestructible great Rocky Mountain ranges
 were. and this land has bren slowly maturing and settling down Co bed rock and A solid
 basis for thousands of years, SO when we sp.ak of Hawloyville we always refer to her solid and stable f,iundaiIohs. and not to the destructible, temporary structures, erected from time to time above thom. Just think what has transpired In the world around since the foundations of Hawleyville were laid She ante dates the pyramids of Egypt and the great Chinese wall, Pompeii and Herculaneum. the rise of Bakers furniture business and the fall of the Roman empire, | Belshazzars feast and the hand-writing on the wall. The birth of he first Connecticut | river shad and of Columbus would be com-
 parat s.ly fresh entries in her diary, as would also the fife and deaih struggles of Lydia Pinkham and Julius Oeasar. IT she could speak she would mention as but the happenings of yesterday the Flood. and the
 wanton destruction of English tea ia Boston harbor. hhe could have givsu Adam and Eve valuable pointers on what know sbout the early days Of successful gardening" The noble Ked Men of the forest shot down tho bison and the bear. built their council afirea hnu hlKnh nmOko~, leTkHu thelr vWnl~un, ana
 roasted he pale-sace captive aud the luscious Long Island oy st.r on these same grounds and | the smoke from hundreds of tspees curled | Heavenward from among her stately forest | trees. When we erected buildings two years ago here fin thls bowling wilderness and put In a finely selected stock Of furniture large enough and good enough for the best city trade, we were looked upon as poor de- mented, crazy fool. and some more outspoken than the r. st said that our place was at the head of the column of d d fools Our cx- perience has been that so long aa you can head a colume in this world you are ali right. we felt at the outset quite elAtod at our rapid promotion and we ar doing nur very best 10 hold the position, we keep putting in l finer and better goods all the tune. Hawley- vile does not yet aspire 10 even tho pretan- tions of N small country viliaayes it ia simply a great railroad centre. easy of acoesa and one of th. best distributing points for furni- ture to be found any~h TO. We are located right opposite the Union depot, on the sidi' ,g where we have no carriage either in receiving or shipping goods. We have no rents to pay and tax.s are very low in this to~ n. We have a city stock with country exponees and there Is hardly a city or town In the state that we have moi shipped goods to during the past year. We deliver All goods free anywhere within b0 miles of Hawieyville If you are In want of furniture this spring you can't afford to pass us by. We are headquarters in West ern Connecticut for the Wh, eler d Wilson and New Home sewing maehinea.