On July 16, 1914, the City of Ridgeway published the city’s financial statements for the first six months of the year. The city received a total of $1,361.26 from taxes, fines and licenses. Among the expenses was $23.29 for being overdrawn on January 1, $43.67 for the clerk’s salary. The marshal was the highest paid city worker at $75; the aldermen were pai $56.25 and the mayor received $18 for the six-month period. They paid $41.30 for the election. The road fund received 289.56 from taxes and paid out $243.56 for materials, labor, “road drags” and street commissioner salary and fees. There were two special funds for the new City Hall and jail ($3000) and Electric Light Fund ($10,014.10). E. S. Miner Jr., City Treasurer, certified that “all the above is a correct accounting of all money received and paid by me.”
