From the “Whitefish Pilot.”
March 20, 1913
Without waiting for the formality of a
physician's attendance, the presence of a trained nurse or other
traditional preparations for his coming, the stork boarded Great
Northern passenger train No. 44 soon after it pulled out of Trinidad,
Wash., Saturday morning [March 15], and left a cooing eight-pound
baby girl with the astonished passengers.
The mother of the infant, Mrs. W. S.
Ledbetter, wife of a railway brakeman living at Trinidad, was on her
way to Spokane to visit friends. While still west of Wilson Creek the
impending visit of the attenuated carrier was known to women on the
train, and Mrs. Ledbetter was shown every possible attention.
Trainmen enlisted their aid, and when
the cars rolled into Wilson Creek a physician met them, and
immediately ministered to the mother and infant.
Arriving in Spokane at 12:15 o'clock an
ambulance from the New England company was in waiting, and the pair
soon were established in a sunny room at Sacred Heart hospital.
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