Cyrus Hall started the company store, and was known to be the fairest business man since he always sold all of his items below retail prices.
This made his workers more like family to him instead of just treating his workers like tools to get the job done. The company store sold all the tools and clothes for work and the top room was for sorting out mail that came from the post office in Somesville. A man named One Arm Pete went down every morning to get the mail and brought it back to the company store.