The Rock County Board selects the county's first female clerk, Sylvia Fero, who has served as deputy county clerk. Janesville police get a new motorcycle for patrol work. W.E. Gower and Mrs. E.E. Bailie are killed when a train slams into Gower's taxi at the Five Points intersection in Janesville. A coroner's jury rules the railroads were negligent in the accident. A new ordinance allows Janesville City Hall to close on Saturday afternoons half of the year.
County supervisors issue a fruitless call for residents to stop bootlegging liquor.
Thomas Coras shoots and kills Edith Wilkins, then commits suicide. Both are Janesville residents. Students from the Wisconsin School for the Blind take three firsts in state music competition, including Jessie Vineer's top honors for violin. Janesville Parent-Teacher associations sponsor the city's first clinic for preschool children. The city hauls 700 loads of rubbish during cleanup week.