As a hotel, the National ranks among the best and most modernly appointed to be found outside the larger cities.  It is completely modern in every respect, with a total of fifty-four guest rooms, a complete dining room, an adequate kitchen with strictly modern appliances of all kinds, and a coffee shop for patrons, both local and transient, who prefer the restaurant style of meal service, or lunch, to the more complete service of a dining room.

Thirty-six of the guest rooms are equipped with baths, and two public baths are located on each floor of the building.  Rooms are furnished with velvet rugs, bed, combination chest of drawers and writing desk, rocker, grip stand and comfortable, straight chair.  In addition to this regular equipment, twin beds have been installed in double rooms.  Single room beds are full size.  All springs and mattresses are of the best latest improved type and were selected with a view of obtaining the very best on the market both from the viewpoint of sanitation and comfort.  All rooms are supplied with telephone service, operating through the private exchange at the desk.

The hotel, completely furnished, represents an investment of more than one hundred thousand dollars, and one of a chain of such hotels being built and operated by the National Hotel Service Company in Kentucky, Oklahoma and Missouri.  Much of the stock is held locally and the rest in St. Louis and other localities in which the company operates. 

Mr. and Mrs. Stansbury, of St. Louis, will have charge of the local hotel, and the rest of the personnel has been selected, as far as possible, from local people.   Officers of the hotel operating company are John W. Rowan, president; G. L. Kippenberger, vice-president; D. P. Denison, secretary and financial manager, and Paul Klingensmith, treasurer.

The News welcomes this new addition to the Lead Belt and wishes all concerned a full measure of success.

[Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, Feb. 1, 1929]