Van Bittner

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

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

Vernon Johnson began serving in the House of Delegates

Walter Barnes wrote English for American High Schools

John Peale Bishop published Many Thousands Gone

Bill Blizzard led the UMWA's struggle against Keeney's West Virginia Mine Workers Union

Bluefield Institute changed its name to Bluefield State Teachers College (now Bluefield State University)

Joseph Harned published Wild Flowers of the Alleghenies

Izetta Jewell Brown became the commissioner of public welfare in Schenectady

Oliver Chitwood published History of Colonial America

Concord gained full accreditation

Concord's name was changed to Concord State Teachers College, now Concord University

Bruce Crawford traveled to Harlan County, Kentucky, as part of writer's group investigation

Julia Davis wrote Stonewall

A decline in membership left only 40 churches belonging to the African Methodist Episcopal denomination

Death of William G. Baldwin

Walter Barnes wrote The Photoplay as Literature Art

William "Wally" Barron married Opal Marie Wilcox

Betty Bartholomew earned a teaching certificate and A.B. in botany from WVU

Charleston and Huntington remained the only West Virginia cities in the Middle Atlantic League of baseball

The state purchased the initial three tracts of land to form Bear Rock Lakes near Wheeling

Henry Lake Dickason became president of Bluefield State Teachers College (now Bluefield State University)

Matthew Wesley Clair, Sr. retired as bishop of the Midwest black conferences of the Methodist Episcopals

Elsie Clapp left Arthurdale

Artist Ellie Schaul was born in Cambridge, Massachussetts

United Mine Workers of America established a Welfare and Retirement Fund

Ashford General Hospital closed

Wood County Airport, Parkersburg, built

Greater Cumberland Regional Airport, at Wiley Ford, built

The Bailes Brothers moved to KWKH Shreveport

Bluefield joined the Appalachian Rookie League in baseball

Everett Ferguson sold Browns Island to Weirton Ice and Coal Supply Company

Lew Burdette signed his first professional contract with the New York Yankees

Col. E. G. Via died

Camden Park was sold to James P. Boylin

Jim Comstock founded the Richwood News Leader

Samuel Cooper attended the World Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland

Bruce Crawford founded the West Virginia Advertising Company

Phyllis Curtin appeared at Tanglewood Music Center

Davis & Elkins College received full accreditation

Dolores Dowling left the Army Nurse Corps as a first lieutenant

Joanne Dru starred in her first film, Abie's Irish Rose

Proposed amendment to make the Board of Education a constitutional body

First consulting forester in West Virginia began work

Patrick Gainer became professor of English at WVU

Joseph C. Gluck, eventually dean of students, vice president for student affairs and special counselor to students, began work at WVU

The third floor of the Governor's Mansion was added

Alberta Pierson Hannum's book Spin a Silver Dollar was released as a radio play

Governor Meadows reappointed Roy Lee Harmon as poet laureate of West Virginia

Hawkshaw Hawkins began working on the Wheeling Jamboree broadcast from WWVA

Johnnie Johnson began performing in Chicago

The village of Lilly was razed due to construction of the Bluestone Dam

Pare Lorentz was awarded the Legion of Merit

A new dining hall was constructed at Marshall College (now University)

Jack Maurice returned to the Charleston Daily Mail

Arnold Miller returned home from WWII

The UMWA Health and Retirement Funds were created

Ruth Ann Musick began teaching mathematics and English at Fairmont State College (Fairmont State University)

Eldora Nuzum was made managing editor of the Grafton Sentinel

Molly O'Day was signed to Columbia Records contract by Fred Rose

American Cyanamid established plant at Willow Island

The West Virginia Broadcasters Association was organized

Louis Jordan made "Salt Pork, West Virginia" a best-selling recording

The Secondary Schools Activities Commission appointed a full-time executive secretary to the board

Raymond Hayes made a trip to Fayette County

Meredith Sue Willis was born

Sam Snead won the British Open

Buddy Starcher cut his first recordings on Four Star

An appropriation of $60,000 was obtained for the West Virginia State Police Academy during the legislative session

Storer College was accredited as a baccalaureate institution

A constitutional amendment providing educational reforms was defeated

Joe Stydahar won another championship with the Chicago Bears

Festus Summers became a full-time professor at WVU

The rubber plant at Institute was closed

DuPont's Belle Works ceased production of nylon

Frank Thomas built Fayette Airport

The United Brethren merged with the Evangelical Association forming the Evangelical United Brethren Church

There were 261 United Brethren churches in West Virginia

Hobert Skidmore died

The current West Virginia Historical Society was incorporated

The West Virginia Review was sold again

There were 6,000 students enrolled in WVU

Irvin Stewart became president of WVU

George Smith died

WJLS added an FM affiliate

American neurologist Walter Freeman adapted a variation of the surgery called the transorbital lobotomy

Artist Helen Chilton was born in Pennsylvania