Beaver County News | 1923-12-28 | Page 3 | Hamlets Grow into Towns

HAMLETS GROW INTO TOWNS Cross-country Motor Travel Responsible Respon-sible for Rapid Growth of Small Communities. Automobiles have "made" some large cities in the United States, particularly particu-larly Detroit, Cleveland and a few others, but Emll Peterson, who returned re-turned to Redlands, Csl., recently from Kansas City where he has spent over a year says that it 1 wonderful how many little towns hnv been made by the automobiles on th transcontinental transcontinen-tal highways. He says that most of these towns were little hamlets on country ronds before the days of the automobile, but now they have grown up into villages and towns. The old blacksmith shop has given way to a well-equipped garage, ga-rage, carrying all sorts of parts and needed accessories and with gasoline and oil for the traveling motorist. And there Is usually a very fair small hotel ho-tel where country dinners enn be secured se-cured at a reasonable price. And the business that is being done has Justified the expenditures for paved roads. For every transcontinental transconti-nental highway is being used all the time, there are strings of machines traveling these ribbons to California every day.