.
    A while back I heard a story about a baby being found in a snow bank, during the winter season before WWII.  Through the auspices of a few people people that knew all about it, I learned the story and share it here. 

    Apparently it was the first week in February 1941 and Dr. H. A. Smith of Winter found it necessary to take Mrs. Henry Armstrong from her rural home near Ojibwa to the hospital in Park Falls to deliver a baby. 

    The roads were ice covered and slippery, and the Dr. was in a hurry so he took the short cut up Price County Road B from Highway 70 to Park Falls.  While on this road he lost control of the vehicle and ended up buried in a snow bank. 

   After a short while a gentleman from Exland happened by and Mrs. Armstrong was transferred to his car and the three of them continued on to the Park Falls Hospital.

   It was not until they got there that they realized that the baby had been born and was now missing..  It was figured that the baby must have dropped out during the transfer between vehicles.  Dr. Smith and a nurse rushed back to his car and found the baby wrapped up in an unknown blanket laying in the front seat of the car (Mrs Armstrong had been in the back seat).

   The Dr. and the Nurse rushed the baby boy to the hospital, leaving Dr. Smith’s car still in the ditch.

  Another man passing by had discovered the baby in the snow bank. Luckily he stopped, wrapped it in the blanket, placed it in the vehicle and rushed to Philips to get the Sheriff, thinking some sort of foul play had taken place. 

  When the Price County Sheriff’s Deputy arrived the car was there but the baby was now missing.  It took a while for folks to sort out what had happened.

   This was the way that 8 pound Ronald Armstrong came into the world…  Rescued from a Snowbank and leaving a trail of confusion.
.