Commissioner assigned responsibility to regulate farm products
The Allegheny Lodge was built
Waitman Barbe wrote Great Poems Interpreted
Walter Barnes wrote English in the Country School
John Peale Bishop entered Princeton
Charles F. Millspaugh wrote The Living Flora of West Virginia
James Callahan wrote Semi-Centennial History of West Virginia
Consolidated Manufactories pottery factory established by Merchants Association of Grafton
John Harrington Cox collected his first folk song
Henry Gassaway Davis was chairman of Semi-Centennial Commission
Alston Dayton made the injunction from the Hitchman Coal & Coke v. John Mitchell case permanent
Legislature passed act that provided for the employment of extension agents
West Virginia appropriated fire protection funds
The Glenville high school received its own building
Nathan Goff served in the U.S. Senate
The building of the central section of the Greenbrier Hotel and the Old White golf course were completed
Legislature created the State Road Bureau
Annual coal production exceeded 28 million tons
Ritter Park in Huntington was fashioned from land originally intended for a city incinerator
Louis Johnson was admitted to the bar in Clarksburg
Harriet Jones helped to establish Hopemont Sanitarium
Teepi Kendrick became the state agent in charge of the corn clubs for boys and canning clubs for girls
Keyser was incorporated
Supreme Court decisions on State ex rel. Nance v. Mays, Ex parte Jones, and Hatfield v. Graham were decided during the labor rebellion and accorded vast power to the executive branch to use martial law
Weston became the southern terminus of regional electric trolley car service
The second courthouse in Madison was torn down
Redress was allowed under the original workers compensation statue
Course work was added to Marshall University to include the equivalent of freshman and sophomore years of college
Walter Martens began working as a draftsman in Danville
The title was changed from Evening Journal to Martinsburg West Virginia Evening Journal
Hu Maxwell co-authored West Virginia and Its People
Bill McKell completed his own branch railroad to connect with the Virginian Railway at Pax
John McWhorter left office as judge of West Virginia's 12th judicial circuit
John McWhorter drafted the Yost Law, providing for enforcement of state prohibition
The Mennonites building was moved to Roaring Creek
The Minter Homes Corporation was established in Huntington
A major refinery was built at St. Marys by Quaker State
United States Senate looked into Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike
John Nugent was question by the U.S. Senate investigating committee for efforts to import strikebreakers to West Virginia
John Nugent left West Virginia for Kentucky
The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly fathered the state's first workers compensation bill
The Ohio Valley Refining Company was established at St. Marys
Livia Poffenbarger sold the State Gazette.
Legislature passed the Yost law, under which prohibition was enforced, creating the Department of Prohibition
The state's first tuberculosis sanitarium was founded at Hopemont in Preston County
The Public Service Commission was created by the legislature
Leonard Riggleman passed the uniform teachers exam
The first high school opened in Ripley
St. Francis Hospital was founded by Patrick J. Donahue
The Salt Sulphur Springs resort was closed
The Star House was acquired by W. B. and Ida Skaggs
Flags were unofficially made for the semi-centennial celebration featured a new design
Stony River Reservoir was completed by West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company
P. D. Strausbaugh graduated from Wooster (Ohio) College
P. D. Strausbaugh began teaching at Wooster (Ohio) College
A streetcar line between Sistersville and Middlebourne was built
Congress passed the 16th Amendment for a federal income tax on corporation
The Indian Camp Normal School was established
Clarence W. Watson finished his term in the U.S. Senate
John S. Bonar graduated from West Liberty
"The West Virginia Hills" was published in The West Virginia Singer
Legislature changed the name to Weston State Hospital
West Virginia House of Delegates passed a state women's suffrage amendment
