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Column:
100 Years Ago, January 4th

by Brandon Woolum
Huntington News Network Columnist

Huntington (HNN) -- The Hamilton Paper and Paint Company, which began business in this city recently, has expanded rapidly and is now doing probably the most flourishing business of any concern of the character that is now in operation in this section of the country.

They have just completed two rooms for Joseph Stribling, a wealthy banker of Point Pleasant, the decorations of the two rooms coating several hundred dollars, and are now engaged upon a large amount of first class work in the city of Ashland.

They have just secured the contract for the work upon the St. Nicholas Hotel, formerly the Elk, which is now being renovated and refinished throughout. Their contract includes the varnishing, retouching, bur lapping, wall paper, etc.

They are also doing a great deal of church work throughout this section of the state and wherever they have done any work, it has always been acceptable and of the highest quality.

They have excellent workmen, men who were brought from Richmond, Chicago and other cities and who ere employed because they were the very best in the business. They have as fine a stock of call paper, paints, moldings, lincrusts, bronzes, burlaps, floral, tiles, ect. As can be found in say of the larger cities of the country.

T. A. Null, who is well known to practically everybody in Huntington and throughout this section, is the principal owner of the company, while J. M. Hutchison is superintendent.

They are doing a jobbing and retail trade and the success with which they are meeting is a most encouraging sign. The offices of the firm are at 1029 Third Avenue, or they can be reached by Mutual telephone No. 896.

-- Yet another rumor as to what the governor, Albert Blakeslee White will do after he retires from office is now in circulation.

He has been made editor of the Wheeling intelligence, the Huntington Herald, a new daily at Charleston, he has been made tax commissioner, internal revenue collector, and even United States senator.

The latest rumor is that he is to become the owner of the Parkersburg News. The News has been traveling a rocky road lately, and there have been serious internal dissensions which culminated recently when the connection of Charles Brooks Smith with the editorial end of the paper ceased.

Major C. D. Elliot owns the controlling interest in the paper. It has not been a paying venture, and although White and Elliott are political enemies, there is a good cause to believe that the deal has been consummated and that Governor White will at the expiration of his term take control of the paper. The dead, if not completed, is at least in progress.

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