Division of Labor

Sensational articles of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud by Theron C. Crawford published in New York

B&O hauled 31% of nation's Tidewater-bound soft coal

Bluefield incorporated as a town

Bank of Bramwell opened

Matthew Clair graduated from Morgan College in Baltimore

Downtown streets of Clarksburg lit up by electricity

Cribs and booms located to direct logs into Coal River's main channel

Elkins was founded

Jack Glasscock managed Indianapolis Hoosiers baseball team for part of the year

The membership of Post No.1 of General Army of the Republic peaked at 3,161

The first major outbreak of the gypsy moth occurred

The Weekly Advertiser became a daily publication as the Advertiser

Harold Houston graduated from Charleston High School

Kenova founded by L. T. Peck

Daniel Lucas began serving as a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

William MacCorkle left prosecuting attorney's office

I.T. Mann had an apprenticeship at Greenbrier Valley Bank

Alexander Martin left DePauw University

Hu Maxwell wrote Idyls of the Golden Shore

The first oil was discovered in Monongalia County

Navigable slack water was extended to the Morgantown area

Anticlinal theory of oil and gas location was developed by I. C. White of WVU

The anticlinal theory of oil and gas location was first tested in Mannington

Pennzoil was founded

An iron truss bridge was built over the New River

West Virginia apple production was at 4.5 million bushels

William Nelson Page was president of Gauley Mountain Coal

Charles Ritter moved to West Virginia

Sheltering Arms Hospital saw its first patient

All telephone exchanges in northern West Virginia were interconnected

The legislature renamed the militia the West Virginia National Guard

William Luke opened a pulp mill and incorporated the West Virginia Paper Company

Albert White was appointed as internal revenue agent

Emanuel Wilson advocated antitrust legislation and increased immigration into the state

Major timbering began in Wyoming County

Carrie Edwards married Abraham L. Williams

Akro Agate Company was relocated to Clarksburg

Mary Atkeson taught English for a year at the University of Missouri

Elkins and Wheeling claimed basketball supremacy

Izetta Brown moved to West Virginia as bride to William Gay Brown

Pearl Buck graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College

Sunday edition was added to Clarksburg Telegram

Golden Delicious apple was discovered on Mullens farm

Antoine (Tony) and Julien Gaujot earned Congressional Medals of Honor during the Philippine Insurrection and America's invasion of Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Phil Conley graduated from WVU

Artemus Cox moved to Charleston

Doddridge County's first roads were paved

Extension home economics agents were placed in certain counties to further efforts

Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act for federal funding to develop agricultural extension program

State prohibition began

The West Virginia Federation of Labor reported 152 local craft unions with 31,315

Ella Holroyd graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Conservatory

The Homer Laughlin Company made semi-vitreous and white granite dinner, hotel and toilet wares

Harley Kilgore earned his law degree from WVU

Harley Kilgore taught school for a year

The local Catholic population built a school in Weston

The West Virginia Library Association was organized

Duval High School was built in Griffithsville

Akro Agate moved to Clarksburg

The Marlinton Opera House was sold due to default on deeds of trust

Frank McEnteer was appointed to superintend the building of the multi-span concrete arch bridge in Clarksburg

Willow Glen, or McKinley's Palace, construction began

The Yost Law became effective

A hotel building on the hill above Minnehaha Springs was completed

Dwight Morrow joined the banking firm J. P. Morgan and Company

Leonard "Lynn" Davis was born

James H. Boone installed light bulbs in Organ Cave

Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company ceased logging Otter Creak

Charles Boldt started manufacturing glass in Huntington

The legislature established a minimum age of 10 for incarceration at Pruntytown

The Ohio Valley Refining Company began operating in St. Marys

There were 40 local offices elected from the Socialist Party

Weirton Steel employment was 5,348

A monument to the Confederacy was erected in Hinton

The USS Huntington was on the West Coast

The Vitrolite factory was fully completed

A nursing school was established at what is now Welch Community Hospital

The Jones brothers of Red Star Coal & Coke Company donated land to the Baptist State Convention

Wheeling Hospital grew to 225 beds

Harrison Ferrell became dean of West Virginia State

Seneca Caverns was opened to the public as tourist attraction

Glenville State college was authorized to begin granting four-year Bachelor of Arts degrees in education

Howell's Gristmill was built in Wetzel County

Jean Lee Latham became editor-in-chief at Chicago's Dramatic Publishing Company

Minnie Lowther wrote Mount Vernon, Its Children, Its Romances, Its Allied Families and Mansions

The Meadow River Lumber Company switched to overhead cable skidders mounted on railroad cars

West Virginia crime rate ranked 7th lowest

Reported 60% of West Virginia crimes are larceny-theft

West Virginia prisoner population had the 6th highest growth rate

Unionized labor at 14.2% of the work force

Number of farms in West Virginia decreased to 20,800

Circulation of the Hampshire Review was 6,950

Dominion Hope provided natural gas to 439 communities in West Virginia in 32 West Virginia counties

The state Supreme Court heard 2,449 cases and issued 159 opinions and 434 orders

The West Virginia Department of Natural Resources listed 17 public fishing lakes and ponds in the state

Video lottery sales represented more than 70% of the lottery's total revenue

The Department of Mines had 110 employees, including 74 inspectors

Circulation of the Dominion Post was 20,454 on weekdays and 24,192 on Sundays

Total circulation of West Virginia newspapers was 781,753

There were 161 commercial sawmills in West Virginia

Michael Smith had 29 number-one songs, five platinum records and 13 gold records

Reported enrollment at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College was 2,580

The student population at West Liberty was 2,375

There were 2,837 students enrolled at West Virginia Northern Community College

West Virginia State University had 2,482 students enrolled

There were 2,183 lottery machines at Wheeling Downs

There were 1,356 students at Wheeling Jesuit University

Circulation of the Wonderful West Virginia was 40,000