From the front page of the Ridgeway Journal dated November 26, 1936:
Visitors to the Ridgeway Hotel in November 1936 were treated to a tour of the WPA (Works Progress Administration)sewing room in the basement of the hotel. A “large number of women who manifested a lively interest n the type of work being done in the room, which is under the supervision of Mrs. Cecile Miner.” Mrs. Mae Drummond, the county supervisor, “greeted the visitors and explained the different classes of work being done by the workers.”
The workers had produced a good quantity of sewn goods which included garments for men, women and children. The garments included shirts, dresses and underwear and “one day each week is being devoted to the making of toys to be distributed to children Christmas day.”
Mrs Drummond mentioned that to that point, the group had been emphasizing quantity, but had recently decided to focus on quality work instead. “Mrs. Drummond was highly pleased with the showing of the local sewing room and the excellent class of work that is being turned out in it.” Among the items produced in the sewing room were 612 shirts, 173 dresses, 48 blouses, 84 dresses and bloomers and 120 toys and many other things. All these things had been created in the one year since the sewing room started production on November 25, 1935.
