He will appear before federal magistrate Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who soon will be appointed the first commissioner of professional baseball to clean up the game in the wake of the Black Sox Scandal of 1919 when eight members of Chicago White Sox, the American League champs, took bribes to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Janesville Amusement Co. buys the Myers Theatre, which has been owned by the Myers family for 50 years. Meeting held in Myers Theatre in support of the Irish quest for freedom from the British. Residents of Irish descent and immigrants are raising funds for Irish relief. The Easter Rising rebellion in Dublin four years earlier has brought the dispute into sharp focus.
Streetcar fare rises to a dime.
Warren G. Harding carries every Janesville ward as he is elected president. County board again refuses to clear snow from rural roads, and the Janesville Chamber of Commerce plans an appeal of the supervisors' action to the state. L.E. Williams and H.C. Mathews arrested for selling wine. Hotel London bar raided, and four bottles of liquor seized. City cops also arrest four people on charges of adultery and two for fornication.