Good morning, Whitewater
Our small municipality has no public meetings scheduled.
The National Weather Service, predicts a high of 80 degrees and patchy fog. The Farmers’ Almanac, predicts “becoming wet Great Lakes, followed by clearing.” It’s the final day of the Farmers’ Almanac’s multi-day series. They’ll start a new one, probably just as inaccurate, tomorrow.
Today is a day for the left in Wisconsin History, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. In our history today, on this date in 1849, socialist Frank J. Weber was born near Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Historical Society has the details:
“A pioneer member of the Socialist party, Weber organized the Federated Trades Council in 1887 and served as its secretary until he retired in 1934. He also founded the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor in June 1893. Weber organized lumber handlers into the American Federation of Labor Longshoreman’s unions. He organized seamen’s unions for the Knights of Labor and the brewery workers in Milwaukee in 1891. Weber served eight years in the legislature and was a leading figure in the fight for the Workingmen’s Compensation Act, old age pensions, and other progressive legislation.”