Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a chance of scattered thunderstorms giving way to a mostly sunny day, with a high of seventy-nine.
Whitewater’s Memorial Day Parade will begin at 10:30 a.m. at First Citizens Bank in downtown Whitewater, and take a route ending at American Legion post 173, at 272 Wisconsin Street.
Map and route diagram from Google Maps. Map is clickable for a larger image.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls a fateful second meeting in 1989:
1899 – Gideons Get Going
On this night two salesmen, John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill, crossed paths a second time, in Beaver Dam. The pair had first met eight months before in the Central Hotel in Boscobel and discussed the need for some way to provide Christian support to traveling businessmen. During this second meeting in Beaver Dam the two decided to “get right at it. Start the ball rolling and follow it up.”
They invited their professional contacts to an organizational meeting to be held in Janesville on July 1, 1899, at which the organization was formally named and chartered. By 1948, The Gideons had distributed over 15 million bibles world-wide. View more information about the founding of the Gideons elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org [Source: Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles]