A few items from the front page of the Ridgeway Journal dated April 10, 1941:
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Roberson opened a new funeral home in the house they rented from the estate of the late J. W. Leazenby. Originally from Moberly, Missouri, they had just moved from Eagleville to Ridgeway when the house they rented there was sold. Mr. Roberson was a licensed embalmer and his wife was his assistant.
James Prather’s thirteen ewes produced a total of twenty one lambs that month. There were nine sets of twin in the bunch. “That’s a record that will give the other fellows something to shoot at”, said Mr. Prather.
Mr. Quillin’s high school music class presented the operetta “Oh, Doctor” in the school auditorium “that delighted a large and appreciative audience.”
Dean Williams lased the J. W. Leazenby farm “on the north side of the gravel road west of town.” He planned to farm the land and sub leased the house to James Prather. He also planned “to farm another tract of land south of town.”
Gilbert Claycomb narrowly escaped death while cleaning a well on the James Prather farm in Trail Creek. When he was about twenty feet down the well, a large rock weighing about fifty two pounds dislodged at the surface, hitting him on the head and leaving him with a five inch gash. “One theory of why he was not killed by the rock was that ricocheted from wall to wall in the course of its descent” which would have slowed it down.
