08/29/2025
This Years Trivia answers are....
#1. $495 was the price of a Chevy Roadster. the average yearly salary in 1931 was $1,800.
#2. Great Fire happened in 1891.
#3. There were 7 deaths as a result of the cyclone of1903. Cyclone was the term used instead of tornado.
4. The land donated for a park was once a cemetery.
5. $1,400 was stolen from the local bank. 2 hours later the robbers were apprehended.
6. Winona County Fair was cancelled due to a polio outbreak. St.Charles residents would have to wait 9 years for the vaccine.
7. Leonard Knapp from Saratoga township was a sci-fi author. He wrote under the name Lester Del Rey.
8. The first Gladiolus festival was held in 1963.
9. The first Amish families moved into the area in the mid 1970s. They came from Hazleton, Iowa.
10. Calvin Carter, the first St.Charles resident to own an automobile bought a Rambler in 1904. In later years there were 4 car dealerships in St.Charles.
11. World War 2 hero Arthur Donahue flew for the British Royal Air Force because the US military required a college degree.
12. Besides Carl Fischer growing his Gladiolus, Art Marquardt grew and sold irises.
