Two days later, Lester sentenced to a year in prison. Colored Odd Fellows Lodge organizes in Beloit. Janesville resident Frank E. Hayes is among the more than 600 people killed in the Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago. A Presbyterian minister from Janesville, identified only as the Rev. Henderson, is visiting in Chicago and helps the volunteer doctors and nurses who rush downtown to help those injured in the holocaust. Large, elaborate hats for women are the fashion.
Fashions remain essentially unchanged throughout the decade.
Forty-six saloons operate in Janesville. St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church organizes in Janesville to serve English-speaking Lutherans. Undoubtedly spurred by the burgeoning success of the growing Parker Pen Co., the Williamson Pen Co. starts in a downtown location. Williamson lasts until 1929, the year of the Great Panic and Stock Market Crash on Wall Street. So does Corona Pen Co., a short-lived operation started in 1923 by former Parker Pen machinist Samuel Corona.