Good morning, Whitewater
There are no public meetings scheduled for the City of Whitewater today.
In our schools today, Pennies for Patients continues at Lakeview and Washington Schools.
The National Weather Service predicts today be sunny with a high of 70 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac predicts “sunny skies.”
Yesterday’s better prediction: NWS. Today, both are either right, or both are wrong.
On this day in Wisconsin history, in 1912, an odd moment in our history — Wisconsin became part of Quebec. The Wisconsin Historical Society relates that “Jane Addams, noted humanitarian and founder of Hull House in Chicago, called for women to get the vote. She spoke before a large audience at the Congregational Church in Janesville.”
(Addams received the Nobel Peace Price in 1931.)
Addams would have to wait another eight years after her 1912 Janesville talk — women did not receive the right to vote until 1920, following the 19th Amendment:
Sixty-sixth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session,
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislature of three-fourths of the several States.
“ARTICLE ————.
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
