From the “Local Mentions” column in the Ridgeway Journal dated April 5, 1900: Farmers were plowing to plant corn. Ridgeway “will do a great deal of improving during the coming summer with her new school building and other contemplated buildings.” (This was the school building that burned in 1951.) Union Sunday School was planning an Easter celebration at the Pleasant Valley school house. Readers were also reminded to that “nearly every person needs tonic medicine this time of year to brace up and invigorate the nervous system and to cleanse the bowels, liver and kidneys” and Campbell Bros. Drug store had just the tonic, “Herbine”, which would cure constipation, regulate the live and enrich the blood.
Election results were in with little surprise for most races: W. J. Coleman was elected mayor, George Noble as Marshal, W. D. Billups as collector and A. P. Fowler as assessor. The editors were surprised that a proposed school bond passed overwhelmingly (112 to 39) that would enable the construction of the new school, but they believed that voters chose wisely and the new school would greatly benefit the community.
