A large crowd greets 12 airplanes on an American Legion flying tour of the country. Marvin Korber, stick-up artist and escaped federal convict, as his time on the lam cut short when he is found in a Janesville rail yard with both feet cut off by a train. He winds up back in Leavenworth Prison. Excavation begins for Janesville's enclosed, concrete reservoir. Dr. Arthur J. Knilans, a Janesville veterinarian, urges the city council to require that all dogs be inoculated against rabies before they may be licensed.
Smoke overcomes several people, including five firemen, but no one dies.
Janesville again wins the Home Talent League baseball championship of southern Wisconsin. Janesville Country Club opens the first nine holes of its new 18-hole course with the second nine to be opened in 1928. Highway 51 is paved with concrete between Edgerton and Stoughton. About 100 liquor law violations are handled civilly because the authorities can shut businesses down and padlock buildings where bootlegging occurs for a year, which District Attorney George Geffs thinks is more effective than criminal prosecution. The numbers seem to back him up because the number of county liquor law violations drops by 100 during the year.