Tonight
Cloudy in the evening, then off and on rain showers after midnight. Low near 60F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%. Updated: June 1, 2021 @ 1:03 am Close
This is the only known photograph of Central Cityâs Hartzell Handle Company factory. Itâs pictured during the Ohio River flood of March 1913. The factory closed later that year.
Courtesy of Special Collections Marshall University
By JAMES E. CASTO
For The Herald-Dispatch Jun 1, 2021
Editorâs Note: This is the 393rd in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes.
HUNTINGTON â In 1926, when William Page Pitt arrived in Huntington to join the faculty of what was then Marshall College, he found one journalism class with five students.
In his 45-year career at Marshall, he built the schoolâs journalism program into one with dozens of classes, hundreds of students and a reputation for excellence. Today, Marshall Universityâs W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications is named in his honor.
Born in New York City in 1900, Pitt moved with his family to Shinnston, W.Va., when he was 12. As a teenager, he worked summers in his fatherâs small coal mine. He graduated from Ohioâs Muskingum College in Ohio in 1925. Already a talented writer, he had worked his way through college by freelancing for newspapers in Columbus, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
Editorâs note: This is the 390th in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes.
HUNTINGTON â For more than 40 years, a modest-sized brick building built in 1937 on the northeast corner of 6th Avenue and 18th Street was home to a popular neighborhood pharmacy.
The pharmacy originally opened as a White Cross Drug Store. Later it was known as Turner & Tanner Drugs and was operated as a partnership between James Clyde Turner and Earl Henry Tanner.
The 1947 edition of the Huntington City Directory still listed the store as Turner & Tanner Drugs, but the 1949 Directory listed the store as Tannerâs Pharmacy Inc., and identified Tanner as its president.
Editorâs Note: This is the 389th in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes.
HUNTINGTON â In 1906, author Jesse Hilton Stuart was born in W-Hollow in Greenup County, Kentucky, and lived there his whole life, except for his college years and later when he spent time abroad. But his visits to Huntington and the Marshall University campus were so frequent that many in the community looked on him as one of their own.
Mitchell Stuart, the future authorâs father, could neither read nor write, and his mother, Martha, had only a second-grade education. But they taught their two sons and three daughters to value education, and all five children graduated from college.
Today
Mainly sunny to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 72F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph..
Tonight
Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to cloudy skies and rain overnight. Snow may mix in late. Low 37F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 80%. Updated: April 20, 2021 @ 5:44 am