Connecticut western news., 1894-03-08
JOHN c. BEMT0M,
Berkshire Block, next to P. O.,
 Great Harrington. Mass.
The CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS
 Has Got to be Sustained; So Say the Good Men of Canaan.

While sufrerine from alittle bilious attack | one day last week we met two aboriginal ree. tdents from the land of Canaan They told us that every business man was bilious who did not adv rtise in the 'Conn. Western News, and they gave us to understand that were it not for the regular periodical publica- ton of this paper the sun would stand attll. tho earth 70 flying off Into space, the laws of gravitation be upset and th@ whole machinery of the universe come % n full stop. tell ynu 1t set us 10 thinking Now if this is true land we have no legal right to doubt the ve acity of these good men of OanaAnl it becomes our imperative duty, fl we love our nelghbora ca we ought, to advertise In tho News" and help support it We advertise quite exten- sively already and these arc hard times to branch out. but we can't fh quietly by and sec the sun turn backward in It's coursa. Now there are just three words we would llke to impress upon your minds, ie. FURNITUnR BAKER, and HAwLEYvTLLE. Perhaps gentle reader you may not know where Haw- leyville is. Nof We'll fits your own fault for she is risht where sbe always has been and has never tried to skulk nor hide herself Hawleyville is built on ono of the oldest and ripost sections of land in Nor h America and during the glacial period she was right in it She is built an what is known aa made llnd SO is portion of Chicago. the only dlfference being that Chicago land has most of H been made during the last decade ia d change from the original plan and ie made from ba~ mama peels, broken down hoop skirts, cigar
 
 eral. What the Hawlcyville land was origin ally made from is a question that has puKzled mysuned and paral Aed the minds of theoioa- ic,l and geological stud-Dts and deep think err in general for aeee, but unlike the Chlca- | go land it seems to be an undieputed fact that it was made the same week and from the same material that the celebrated and seemingly indeetrucsibe great Rocky Mountain ranges were and this land has been slowly maturing and settling down to bed rock and a solid basis Tor thousanda of ycarn, SO when wo speak of Hawleyvills we alwayn refer 10 her rolid and stable foundations, and not to the destructible. temporary structures. erected from time to time above them. Just think what has tranepired in the world around since the foundations of Hawleyvtlle were laid She ante dates the pyramids of Egypt and the great Chinese wall, Pompon and Herculaneum. the rise of Baker's furniture busiue@s and the fall of the Roman empire. | Belshaxzars feast and tho hand-writinK on the wall. The birth of he first Connecticut river shad and of Columbus would be com | parauy.ly fresh entries tn her diary. as would also the life and deah struggles of Lydia Ptnkham and Julius Oeasar If she could speak she ws.uld mention but the happenings of yestors,ay the Flood. and the wanton dcstruction of English tea in Boston harbor. She could have given Adam aud Eve valuable pointers on "what know about the early days of successful gardening The noble hed Men of the forest shot down the bison and the bear. built thalr council nrea
 
 roasted he pale-saoe captive aud the luscious Long Island os stsr on these same grounds, and the smoke from hundreds of tspee~ ourled Heavenward from among her stately forest trees. When we erected buildings two years ago here in this bowling wilderness and put ln a fnely selected stock of furnitura. large enough and good enough for the best city trade, we were looked upon as a poor de- mented, crazy fool, and some moro outapokon than the r-et said that our place was Al the head of the column of d-d fools Our ex- perience has been that 60 long as you can head oolume in this world you arc all right. 90 we felt at the outset quito elAted at our rapid promotion and we arr dolng uur very beet 10 hold the position. we keep putting ln liner and better goods ali the une. HawIey- vile does not yet aspire To even the pretsn- uons of a small country villawes it Ia simply a great railroad centre, easy of accoaa and one of the best distributing points for furni. ture to be found any~ h, TO. We ara located right opposite the Union depot, on the aidiug whore we have no carriage either in receiving or shipping goods. We have no rents to pay and taxrs are very low in this to~n. We have city stock with country expcnsee and there is hardly eity or town In the state that we have not shipped goods to during the past year. We deliver all goods free anywhere within 60 miles of Hawieyviiie If you are ln want of furniture this spring you oanT afford to pass us by. We aru headquArterw ln West ern Uonnecticnt for the Wheeler A Wilson and New Home sewing machines.