But Hiller is not convicted in what is eventually ruled an accident. Labor Day festivities draw 3,000 to Riverside Park. Anna Anderson of Janesville dies of poisoning from drinking bad moonshine liquor. Despite many years of fear that lifting tariffs would kill the local sugar beet business, Rock County Sugar Co. is refining 170,000 pounds of sugar per day and soon will add equipment to keep up with demand. The company produces 7 million pounds of sugar in 1924.
City buys plows for snow removal.
Janesville firemen start preparing their own meals at stations. Rock County won't plow rural concrete roads, but it does erect its first snow fence to try to prevent drifting on Highway 26. A severe cold snap, with lows ranging from minus 18 to 28 below zero, freezes the Rock River, and the annual ice harvest begins at its earliest date in years. Two and a half years ago, few homes were favored with the throes of the beginner on saxophone or snare drum, but today there is scarcely a residence street in the city that could not turn out a band of its own with almost full instrumentation. Janesville Public Library circulation hits 91,264 for the year, up 10,155 from 1923.