One hundred years ago today, the Ridgeway Journal published a notice that taxes were now due and George Crabbe, the collector for Marion Township, would be in Ridgeway on October 28 to collect. The Rex Theater was showing several movies that week including “Shattered Idols”, “The Heart of the North”, “Three Buckaroos” and especially do not miss seeing Wesley Barry in “School Days”. J. Nort Simpson opened a new restaurant on the east side of Main Street. The basketball season had already begun. The boys team won against Blythedale, but they lost to Hatfield. They were scheduled to play Hatfield again that week in Eagleville. Residents were reminded that Ordinance 11 forbade putting dead animals or rotting vegetation into any ditches, sewers, streets, wells, ponds, etc., where the smell may be “noisome to the public”.
The Methodist church had a good week with 148 attending Sunday School and collected $5.85. The pastor was Rev. C. S. Dayhoff and the church was planning a revival in early November. In the Christian church notes, the ladies were planning a program that would take the place of the regular sermon for the next Sunday. Church members were reminded to return any library books and to work hard to complete the member canvas.
