The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-07-31
Autobiography
of a House
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Jeffries and his bride took over
for the bank. s-r. "7s .%,.-l.
Life flowed along on a pretty
even keel and in the course OF
events, young Jefferies was born
A fine boy.
In the summer of 1926 the Mark
MoultonS moved in and began
to pick up. There were parties for
the children as they grew up.
had never had adoleScents with
me before. They were lots of fun.
They fused with my windows
and changed the colors of my
walls, and really made me feel
young again. Of course I was no
spring chicken, but / was certain
ly in my prime.
On September first, of 1929,
Helen Catherine Moulton married
Carl Connell and went to live in
Seattle. Things quoted down a
while after the wedding and then
in 1886 Esther Elizabeth Moulton
married Walter Knowles. This
also was September wedding, on
the 9th to be exact
The trouble with adolescents
is that it takes too little time to
grow up and then they are gone
Now take, babies. Well, they are
with us for a long time. Now
understand me, have nothing
personal against adolecents and
grown ups but just like babies.
On May Is, 1913 the Moultons
moved out and the McBees moved
in, and in 1915 the Joseph Bates
moved in. Such a lot of foreign
furniture. Why some of the things
came all the way, from Italy, and
France.
In 1916 the D. K. Randals
bought me and whitley they never
lived in me, I still fell I know
them. They rented me to the
Coffmans, and such a profusion of
colors With Mrs. Coffman
being an artist well-you can ina
CINE. There were beautiful pic
lures and artificial flowers. :. :.
and chillren again, that was best
of all. q
I had began to feel run down
and bit on the dowdy side when
the Thompsons bought out the
idea of making me into hospital.
Imagine me as a hospital with
lots of babies and happy mothers!
/ was simply thrilled to death.
Then the face lifting and the
operating on my Intervals started.
My it was job to make a hos
pital out of me. Believe it or not,
they tore my linen closet out up
stairs and made it into a nursery.
A real streamlined nursery with
cribs, oxygene tank and now a
brand new incubator, the very
latest in design. My woodwork
was all painted white and the
rooms papered in pleasant and in
tereSting paper partitions
moved and new ones put up. And
you ought to see my cleaning
kitchen
I'm SO very happy, and now to
top it off, I'm to have a real
surgery. Why, I may even save a
life! And speaking of babies why
you just ought to see the little
darlings. I've actually had six
with me at once.
The one disadvantage about my
babies now is that I can't watch
them grow up, because they are
scattered all over the region. Of
course in years to come some will
pass by and point to me with
pride and say, That's where I
was born"
Of course I have some people
who are just sick, but it is a
pleasure to see them get well and
leave, not that / want to get rid
of them, but they always seem
happy to leave, no matter how
pleasant ! try to make their stay.
It's really wonderful to lead
such useful life, when you get
my age. And now / have a name.
A real legal name. I'm the Virgin
la Lee Hospital. / was named
for a little adopted daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson. She was
born in just such little hospital
as am, and I'm proud to carry
her name.
/ hope l get to serve every one
in Kennewick. I don't mean II
want you to be ill but / want you
to know that I'll always be ready
for you if you need me.