From the front page of the Ridgeway Journal dated March 11, 1926:
The Ridgeway girls basketball team won a tournament in New Hampton that week, beating Gilman City (20-11), Eagleville (42-4) and Blythedale (48-3). They regretted that they didn’t get the chance to play against the Bethany team.
The boys played in the same tournament, but lost to the Bethany boys by only one point, 12-11.
Walter Bartlett visited Ridgeway friends to promote his new business in Bethany, Bartlett Motor and Implement Company. There was to be a grand opening that included the Ridgeway Old-Time Eight-Piece Orchestra as well as free service days, free milk tests, motion pictures and demonstrations.
Lois Cocklin, an eighth grade Ridgeway student, won the first prize in the Harrison County graded and hight school elimination spelling contest. She won $5 and a fountain pen and participated in the Northwest Missouri spelling tournament in Maryville. Rosemary Wood, another Ridgeway student, took second place, missing only three words. She won $2.50 and an Eversharp pencil.
A fire at the “Pete” McGowan farm just south of Ridgeway destroyed the barn, house, garage and smoke house. They also lost five horses, harnesses, corn and hay in the fire. Pete was away and “his wife and family and hired man were there, but the flames had gained too much headway for them to handle”.
The New Ridgeway Hotel was under new management. The hotel was purchased by Mrs. M. L. Hahn and Mrs. W. W. Turned of Springfield and Clinton respectively and had been in the hotel business many years.
