Good morning, Whitewater
There’s a reception tonight, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for one of the two school district administrator finalists, Dr. Suzanne Zentner. The reception’s at the Whitewater Country Club, “located on Hwy 89 just South of the intersection of the Hwy 89 and Hwy 12 Bypass on the south edge of the City of Whitewater.”
From the Wisconsin State Journal, an unexpected find, on the origin of the word ‘bubbler’ –
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of Wisconsin’s most prominent regional terms – calling a drinking fountain a bubbler – probably comes from a 1910s corporate marketing campaign.
Usage of the term is concentrated in southeast Wisconsin, where the Kohler Co. marketed its early drinking fountains around 1917, said Joan Hall, editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English.
Those porcelain bowls contained “bubbling valves” that made the water bubble as it came through. Pretty soon, Hall said, the valves became known as “bubblers.” Then, people started calling the whole product by that name.
“And as they changed to look more like drinking fountains, the name stayed the same,” Hall said.