Celebrating History: Neighbor helping neighbor

By Emily Mayer

One of the most enduring qualities about Hill County is neighbor helping neighbor. This story ran on the front page of The Havre Plaindealer’s October 27, 1917, issue:

GRAIN BELT FARMERS HELP SICK NEIGHBOR

One of those examples that now and then crop out to disprove the theory of some that the milk of human kindness has curdled in the veins, was enacted in the Grain Belt district last week when neighbors of Guy Chase plowed and seeded 80 acres of winter wheat on the Chase farm. Mr. Chase has been in poor health for some time past, and recently was advised by his physici...