Celebrating History: New bank, good crops 100 years ago

By Emily Mayer

Before this local history column begins, may I extend a warm welcome to those participating in and enjoying the Rocky Boy Pow-Wow, August 1-4 this year. Best of luck to all contestants, singers and drummers during this wonderful celebration, and thank you to those who organized and worked hard to put on this event.

Filing for political offices ended this week 100 years ago. We will read more about them in November. Instead, let’s focus on the upbeat news this week a century ago, and there was a lot of it.

The newly organized Hill County State Bank opened, and this article was fr...