From the Ridgeway Journal dated October 3, 1940: The Ridgeway Methodist Church welcomed a new pastor, Rev. H. E. Marshall, who came from the Hundley M. E. Church in St. Joseph. He succeeded Rev W. R. Woodward who had been pastor of the Ridgeway church for three years. The Ridgeway Christian Church had a successful Sunday School Rally and Homecoming Day with over 200 people registered. Rev. Noel T. Adams arranged the program of songs in the morning, a basket dinner for lunch and a “dramatization of the devotional by the members of the primaries, intermediate, junior and young people’s departments of the Sunday School”. The dramatization was closed with a rendition of “Rock of Ages” by Mrs. Clayton Pontius.
The town was saddened by the loss of a young man, Guy Kenneth Prather, age 28, who was killed when the car in which he was riding struck a “bridge banister” and was totaled. Two other young men were injured but survived. The accident occurred on this side of Witt Hill.
The Ridgeway Owls football team travelled to play Stanberry, winning 18 – 13. They were to play King City the next week and that game was to be dedicated to the memory of Knute Rockne, the late great coach at Notre Dame.
The area was having a warm dry spell that allowed for maturing of corn and soybeans but delayed the sowing of winter wheat. The paper reported that the drought was hurting pastures and some were badly burned by the lack of moisture. Gardens were nearly gone except tomatoes “which will not last much longer”.
