From the pages of the Ridgeway Journal, July 10, 1891: J. H. Goodwin, the “Ch Town Con”, asked “Did you know that it was contrary to the ordinances of the village of Ridgeway to run horses in the incorporation? It is all the same, so please do not do it any more.”
A group of ex-Union soldiers met on the Fourth of July to organize G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) post at Ridgeway. They voted to organize the post and chose C. F. Fransham as chairman and L. L. Sellers as secretary. The next order of business was to secure a charter and find a hall for meetings. All old soldiers were requested to join as charter members.
The editor commented that the weather was quite variable: “It came nearer turning to winter again this week. In going up the street you would probably meet a person in their bare feet and the next perhaps would have an overcoat on.”
M. D. Shamblin (the agent for the railroad) noted that he sold 110 tickets for the July 4 12:55 train to Blythedale. I didn’t find what was happening at Blythedale that generated so much interest that people chose to go there over attending the Ridgeway 4th of July celebration instead.
A Reverend Little and his wife were due to arrive in Ridgeway soon to hold a “protracted meeting”. They were bringing a tabernacle with them. They had been to Ridgeway before and “did a great deal of good. There is plenty of room in Ridgeway for such work.”
