Businessmen gather to organize the Industrial and Commercial Club to boost Janesville business. In March, Monitor occupies an old tobacco warehouse on North Academy Street and makes the first trucks manufactured in Janesville, open-cab models used largely for local deliveries. The company adds a bus in 1911 but eventually closes before 1917. William Shadel is killed by a train near Milton Junction. His sleigh was demolished, but his horses escape unscathed.
All construction work in the city grinds to a halt.
Journeymen plumbers strike for higher wages. Local contractors hire non-union masons. Comet parties become popular. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show performs at the fairgrounds. Furer had planted by his shanty.