Show small towns develop new type of business bubines 3 new types ot of business and greater prosperity for the larger town ton merchant are rapidly developing in illinois through the vast network of hard roads prof P D converse of the university of illnois has discovered in a survey of illinois villages concentrating their task on towns under 1710 1700 population professor con verse and several assistants attempted to discover what change was wag tak ink ing place in the small ton today new types of business have sprung up in practically every village and town throughout the state the hard roads have touched tou clied them he said these businesses are largely of the service station type dealing in personal services to the customer in eluded in the group are filling stations tire shops garages and similar busl nesses in the older forms of business one ot of the reasons that there Is nn an appreciable prec preci able lable loss of trude trade Is that there Is too much duplication of stocks and none of them complete if a purchaser Is looking tor for some specific article 0 of f a certain type the chances are that he may have to go to a number of different stores before he can find vint that article |