After the Ridgeway Journal shut down after the death of its owner/editor C. C. Cline in 1941, a man by the name of Frank E. Scovil, a former printer for the Kansas City Star, decided to try his hand at running a Ridgeway newspaper in 1942 St. Joseph News-Press, Apr 5, 1942) He had earlier declined to purchase the Ridgeway Journal and the Journal’s printing equipment had all been sold, so he had to bring in his own equipment. He ran a contest to pick a name and six Ridgeway youth entered. Marvin Williams won with the name “Courier” but after discussion with the others, the “Ridgeway Star” was born. (Stanberry Herald – Headlight, Apr 16,1942.) There is not another mention anywhere of this paper, so one can assume that it didn’t stay in business long. There would not be another paper in Ridgeway until Roger Anderson and Paul Johnson started the “Mercury-Herald” in the Anderson family home in 1949.
