Good morning, Whitewater
There are no public meetings scheduled in the City of Whitewater.
There is, though, a public event – tonight at 6 p.m. Whitewater celebrates the season with a Holiday Parade.
The National Weather Service predicts a high of 20 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac starts a new, multi-day series predicting that today will be “fair then wet.”
Yesterday’s better prediction: NWS.
There’s a book fair at Lincoln School today.
In Wisconsin history today, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, Janesville Council Denies Prohibition End:
On this date the Janesville Council drafted a “drastic liquor control law” that prohibited serving liquor. The law prohibited distilled spirits, but not beer, at bars, and limited liquor service to tables. Backrooms and “blinds” (closed booths) were also prohibited. The only place where packaged liquor was allowed to be sold was at municipal dispensaries. Further, bars were prohibited from selling packaged liquor. The next day, the city was uncommonly quiet as the 18th Amendment was repealed. For nearly 14 years, the 18th Amendment (the Prohibition Amendment), outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the U.S.