In less than a month he had sold ten refrigerators and five ranges. And Tupelo is only a small town, about 6,000 population. It is still a little early to see what the new electric rate is going to do for householders and farmers in and around Corinth and Tupelo. But it hasn't reached that class yet. But it's going along.
Dealers say they are taking orders from farmers right along.
One thing they are doing is to cut down greatly the cost of wiring a house. It began back in 1923 with one garment factory, the management of which adopted a policy of hiring only workers who lived out in the country, on their own little farms. The movement spread. There are in Tupelo two garment factories and a textile mill that employ a total of around 2,000 people, and of these, I was told, only 700 or 800 live in town. Busses collect the workers from their farms, averaging around 15 acres each, every morning and bring them to work.