From the Ridgeway Journal published December 5, 1940: The Vocational Agriculture department at Ridgeway High School received a complimentary letter from Dr. Lloyd C. King, state superintendent of schools. The letter noted a number of new improvements in the department and made several suggestions. Ridgeway high school basketball started its season with a win over Eagleville in a hard fought game 35-34. The girls’ volleyball team also played, but lost 34 to 39. They then played the CCC team from Gallatin, winning 36-29.
Ridgeway businesses were decorated for Christmas and the Christian, Methodist and Assembly of God churches were preparing their Christmas services. Several area young men came home from national guard came to visit family before returning to camp to leave for South Carolina for a year of training: Winfield Peetoom, John Andrick, Charles Gibson, Gordon Jenkins, Lawerence Tuggle and Harold Tripp. The weather was getting chilly with temps around 3 degrees above zero around Ridgeway and below zero further north. Under the classified ads, Mrs. Merrill Grant had dressed hens for sale and the post office requested that the “party who took a fountain pen from the postoffice last Saturday is known. Please bring it back to the post office without further trouble.”
