WAUPACA COUNTY NEWS

April 13, 1922

 

NAME STEVENS POINT HOTEL

 

            After George A. Whiting, Neenah, paper mill owner at Stevens Point, had wired a $25,000 stock subscription for the new local hotel now being constructed there, directors of the hotel company met and decided to name the building after him.        It is to be called “Hotel Whiting.” Mr. Whiting was solicited at Hot Springs, Ark., by E.A. Oberweiser, of the Point, his business associate and president of the hotel company.  Mr. Whiting is president and principal owner of the Whiting-Plover Paper Co. at the Point and the George A. Whiting Paper Co., Menasha.  He founded the paper mill industry in this vicinity.

            The $25,000 subscription makes Mr. Whiting the heaviest subscriber in the hotel company, which is being financed largely with money raised among local citizens.  The hotel, five stores in height with 125 rooms, will be completed sometime during the summer.  It has been leased to John M. Teeling, Milwaukee.