The Ridgeway Journal, Friday, April 3, 1891
This week, I offer you items for the first issue of the Ridgeway Journal dated April 3, 1891. The Jaqua brothers were the first editors and they published every Friday with a yearly subscription for just one dollar. They promised the paper “will steer clear of mudslinging, slander and the like, for such things tend to make a sheet disgusting to the public”. The front page also had at least two doctors listing their office hours and two competing dry goods stores, a druggist and a bookstore all advertised their wares on the front page. The OB&QRR train schedule was published and had one passenger train and one freight train going north and one of each going south.
In the local news section, the home of Charles Fordyce, located 6 miles southeast of town, caught fire due to defective flue and burned to the ground. The wagon of J. H. Taylor overturned while he was hauling timber, trapping three boys under it. They escaped unharmed but Mr. Taylor broke his leg.
