Vernon Johnson

Bill to create the Department of Agriculture and Commissioner of Agriculture was passed

Alderson Academy's name was changed to Alderson Baptist Academy (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)

Walter Barnes received an M.A. from Harvard

Van Bittner joined the UMWA

The Board of Control was given responsibility to manage the state tuberculosis sanitarium at Terra Alta and the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home in Huntington

A. B. Brooks wrote Forestry and Wood Industries

Fire destroyed the Mountain House

155,092 pounds of chestnuts shipped from one railroad station in West Virginia

William Edwin Chilton was elected U.S. senator by state legislature

Goff Building was finished in Clarksburg

Danske Dandridge wrote American Prisoners of the Revolution

The elective Office of Agriculture Commissioner was created

Population of postal communities on Flat Top Mountain was 300

Reported 83 band mills and 900 circular mills in operation

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

Berkeley Glass Sand Company was incorporated

Benjamin Franklin Gravely began designing a power-driven plow

After changing to Lewisburg Female Institute the name changed to Lewisburg Seminary (later Greenbrier College for Women)

The citizens of Guyandotte voted to become part of Huntington

A new courthouse in Hamlin was constructed

The Anti-Tuberculosis League of West Virginia lobbied a bill through legislature to build a sanitarium

Charles Laws graduated from Leonard Medical College in North Carolina

Governor Glasscock gave Joseph Long the title colonel

Minnie Lowther published The History of Ritchie County

The earliest known road map of West Virginia was produced by a state agency

The Marlinton Opera House began use

Frank McEnteer moved to Clarksburg

Rufus G. Meador constructed a hotel at Mercer Healing Springs

Explosion at No. 20 Mine in Elk Garden killed 23 miners

Congress enacted the Weeks law which authorized the federal government to cooperate with the various states to purchase land for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams

The name of the Morgantown newspaper was changed to Weekly New Dominion

The Blue Creek oil field was discovered along the Elk River

Matthew M. Neely was elected clerk of the House of Delegates

Paden City Pottery was established

Pre-engineering and agriculture programs were added at West Virginia Preparatory School (now Potomac State)

The legislature approved the submission of another prohibition amendment to the people

The Story of a Song: What It Means to Belong to the King was published.

Rat Rodgers started at Bethany College

A streetcar line extension from Charleston to St. Albans was established

A deadlock occurred in the senate when members had to chose the U.S. Senators

The Seneca Glass Company opened a second factory in Star City

The Pythians erected an obelisk at Samuel W. Starks's grave in Spring Hill Cemetery

Clarence W. Watson began serving in the U.S. Senate

Fairview changed its name to Wayne

The West Virginia Press Association became inactive

Wings were added to Woodburn Hall at WVU

Westover was incorporated

Widen was built as a coal company town

Willard Hotel was built in Grafton

Harry Stansbury contacted high schools across the state to participate

The Belle Alkali Company started a plant near Belle

The Warner-Klipstein Chemical Company started

A Clarksburg newspaper became the Exponent-American

First land for the Monongahela National Forest acquired

Legislation gave authority to Forest, Game and Fish Warden to establish refuges for protection of wild game and birds

Reinforced concrete began with C.A.P Turner

Monument erected at Fort Lee site to mark the beginnings of Charleston

Fostoria Glass's popular "American" pattern was fist designed and patented

West Virginia Bureau of Mines reported 1,479 hand-loading miners employed at Gary

The Mother's Pension Law was enacted

The Board of Health was replaced by the Department of Health

Local timbering brought a narrow-gauge railroad to Helvetia

The word "hillbilly" appeared in the title of a Harper's Monthly travel article, "Hobnobbing with Hillbillies"

A 5-acre tract of land at Jackson's Mill was purchased by the Monongahela Power Company

William "Keg" Purnell was born in Charleston

Ann Baker was born

Mother Jones testified before another congressional committee

The New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company operated a series of drift mines at Layland, Fayette County

Legislature passed bill to empower cities and towns to levy taxes for public libraries and reading rooms

A monument to General Joseph Lightburn was placed at Vicksburg National Battlefield Park

The Marcus family relocated to Farmington

Marietta Manufacturing Company began operation in Point Pleasant

The Concrete Steel Bridge Company built the Alderson bridge across the Greenbrier River

Legislation called for provision for preventing underground mine fires and requiring foremen and fire bosses to pass state examination and receive state certification

Margaret Montague published Closed Doors

Ephraim Morgan was appointed to the Public Service Commission by Governor Hatfield

Descendents of Hunter John Myers left the Sleepy Creek Mountain area

A member of the Church of Nazarene moved to Mannington and started a church in his house

Greasy Neale graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College

Greasy Neale played with the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs

Herschel C. Ogden became the owner of the Parkersburg News

The legislature removed Workmen's Compensation from the Public Service Commision

Dr. Burke offered the state of West Virginia property for use as a tuberculosis sanatorium

Frederick Rhead received a gold medal at the San Diego Exposition for his design of mirror black pottery glaze

Rat Rodgers lettered in football

Benjamin Rosenbloom served as state senator from Wheeling

The state legislature passed a primary law that made it difficult for third parties to be on the ballot

The West Virginia legislature first imposed the corporate excise tax

Charles Ward died

H. Rus Warne designed the West Virginia Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco

H. Rus Warne designed a Masonic Temple Building

Walter B "Watt" Powell moved to Charleston

The West Virginia Coal Association was formed

Legislation changed the name of West Virginia Colored Institute to West Virginia Collegiate Institute (now West Virginia State university)

State women's suffrage amendment was reintroduced

Carter G. Woodson published The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861

Lenna Yost became the state legislative chair of the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs

Thomas Davis resigned from National Guard

The Kessinger Brothers started performing on radio station WOBU (WCHS)

A new city council was seated in Hinton

Guyan Valley High School was built in Pleasant View

Kyle McCormick became publisher of the Princeton Observer

A granite monument marking Zackquill Morgan's grave was erected

Lawrence Nuttall donated his plant collection to the WVU Herbarium

The American Viscose Corporation started rayon production in South Parkersburg

Giuseppe Argiro of Fairmont was credited with creating the pepperoni roll

1,099 cases of smallpox were reported in West Virginia

The state's milk control program began

The federal court case United Mine Workers of America v. Red Jacket Consolidation Coal and Coke Company affirmed the use of injunctions against union organizing efforts

Blind Alfred Reed wrote "The Wreck of the Virginian"

Walter Reuther moved to Detroit

Frederick H. Rhead joined the Laughlin Company

The boundaries of the Monongahela National Forest were extended to include the Smoke Hole

Legislature acted to acquire additional areas for state parks

Festus Summers studied at Columbia University

The William Byrne Elk River tales began a regular feature in the West Virginia Wild Life Magazine, and were later published as Tale of the Elk

Sam Taylor ended his state police career after losing a leg in an on-duty motorcycle accident

W.W. Trent became president of Alderson-Broaddus College

A planing mill in Parson became a woolen mill

Consolidation Coal Company became the largest independent bituminous mining company in the nation

Ernest T. Weir took over as chief executive officer of National Steel

I. C. White stopped serving as first director of the West Virginia Geological & Economic Survey

Lenna Lowe Yost became the first woman to serve on the West Virginia Wesleyan College Board of Trustees

Gas leak and fire destroyed much of the glass factory, but the company resumed a year later

The school changed its name to Fairmont State Teachers College, now Fairmont State University

Fairmont newspaper's Sunday edition became the Times West Virginian

Susanne Fisher sang small parts at Berlin State Opera

Alberta Pierson Hannum wrote her first novel, Thursday April

Hazel Atlas corporate headquarters located in Wheeling

The Department of Public Assistance replaced the Board of Children's Guardians

Harold Houston aided C. Frank Keeny with the organization of the West Virginia Mine Workers Union and the West Virginia Labor Party

The West Virginia immigration commissioner's position was discontinued

Charlie Cline was born

M. Marsh and Son rented more than 40 cigar-making machines

The Concrete Steel Bridge Company was forced into bankruptcy and liquidated

West Virginia apple production peaked at 12 million bushels

County banks failed

WHIS Bluefield broadcast the murder trial of Minnie Stull.

Leonard Riggleman was elected president of Morris Harvey College, now University of Charleston

The Valley River Railroad closed

Ada "Bricktop" Smith opened a larger Bricktop's club

Boyd Stutler co-wrote a textbook on West Virginia History

Festus Summers left Morris Harvey College, now University of Charleston

Welch Hospital No. One became Welch Emergency Hospital

Wiley Post and Harold Gatty stopped at Wertz Field

West Virginia Yesterday and Today was copyrighted by Phil Conley

Roy McCuskey became president of West Virginia Wesleyan College

George Smith began serving as WWVA program director

A new bank in Winfield failed

New River State School became New River State College, now WVU Institute of Technology

WWVA received network affiliation

John Zontini rushed for 865 yards as a freshman at Marshall College

Toni Stone's family moved to Minnesota

John Bishop died in Hyannis, Mass.