A couple of interesting items from the front page of the Ridgeway Journal dated October 11, 1934:
Many Ridgeway baseball fans rooted for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1934 World Series as they played against the Detroit Tigers. The manager of the Palace Theater rigged up loud speakers at the front of the theater and “the play by play announcements by Tom Manning, Graham MeNamee and other broadcasters at the ball parks could be distinctly beard anywhere along the street in the business section.” The Cards shut out the Tigers in the seventh and final game in Detroit with a score of 11-0. “Now that the annual baseball classic is out of the way ‘business as usual’ is once more the order of the day.”
Howard Baker and Buster Goodwin of Ridgeway took a two-week trip to Seattle, Washington to assist Fred Tucker with the purchase of three reindeer. He planned to use them “in advertising features during the yuletide season”, then return them to Seattle for the rest of the winter. “Mr. Tucker is owner of a show that ‘makes’ the various towns throughout the midwest. A number of his players are now in Ridgeway, notable among them being a group of Japanese acrobats.”
