Good morning.
Winter makes her presence felt in Whitewater: it’s a wintery mix of rain, sleet, and snow ahead today, with a high temperature of thirty six. In Pierre, South Dakota: breezy and forty-six.
On this day in 1922, a Prohibition raid in Madison:
1922 – Authorities Confiscate Illegal Alcohol
On this date authorities in Madison confiscated 1,200 gallons of “mash” and fifteen gallons of moonshine from the home of a suspected bootlegger. As the illegal liquor trade flourished in Madison’s Greenbush neighborhood duringProhibition, two rival gangs, one on Regent Street and the other located on Milton Street, fought to gain control until the “Rum War” erupted among these factions in 1923. [Source: Bishops to Bootleggers: A Biographical Guide to Resurrection Cemetery, p.189]
Via Wisconsin Historical Society.