The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-12
RURAL LIFE
IN GOVERNOR
COOLIDCE'S HOME
Bears Taken In Spring
Traps and i9eeasalMix
With Cattle


| York Times is up in Gov. Coolidge's
old home in Windsor county and des-
cribes it's rustic simplicity as follows:
Governor Calvin Coolidge of Mass
achusetts, perhaps the most modest
man who ever held public Office, IS
back home in Plymouth Notch, IN a
region where Bruin is taken in sprlng--
traps every year and where deer 1eeo
with cattle in the rock pastures. AS
Mr.. Coolidge has always stunned the
limelight of "Who's Who" he is
likely to meet neighbors who do not
know that he has been Nominated Tor
Vice President, and who will never
know it from his lips. 1t is large,
Wild unconventional township in the
heart of the Green Mountains, OF
rough farms and lonely farmhouses.
) The call of Bob White is heard IN
) season, but never the whistle OF a
locomotive, except family at times on
the wings of a south wind coming up
from Ludlow, six miles away from
TYSON, a Plymouth settlement ana
ont post. A Plymouth man is passing
rich ON few hundred dollars a year.
All men are equal in the local view
and addressed by shortened hfst
name. The Governor of Massachu-
sets is CAL to the fathers of the nam
lot and thew must wonder why such
! a Quiet. no-account chap happened TO
be nominated for the job OF Hlce
5 President, as they learn by the huI-
> land paper, r. F. ID. Those VINO 40
not take paper will be told by sur sum
mer visitors of the honor dons fly-
mouth.
Everybody in Peacham has heard OF
Colonel Harvey, and everybody IN
i Grafton of John Barrett. But Cai,
vim Coolidge will have to be elected
! Vice President to be generally known
+ in secluded Plymouth, which is part
e w the fault of the Governor of Mass
= achusetts.
e Plymouth is mainly forest ant
e mountains, with small lakes, mere
= mountain mirrors, strung along th'
il Black river. 1t is one OF the mos
:. beautiful regions in all New England
There is q view from every hllllsde
and there are more hill sides than can
4 he counted. 1t is paradise for wall
IL ers and for trout fishermen. Any on
with a bent pin can catch trout IN IN
~ Ottaqueechie before the July meats
" Killington peak looms into the SKY I
>. lure climbers. witt
= ,, From its craggy summit the Whit
II Mountains and Lake Champlain, VIII
IS the Adirondacks tumbled beyond, ca
ne he seen. Under the rock peak IS
o. snrinp with temperature OF 50 at
o, grees on a sweltering day. Caivl
Ia Coolidge must have gone up killln&
IN TON bv the Juggernaut Trail IN n
"a bovhood. By following the brook III
D, iii it is so small it tlickles throue
the moss and ferns no one need g
- lost There are the Pico peaks an
Saltash mountain for variety.
\ IF the Governor does not want
follow the blazed trail, he can |
IN in the shade of an abandoned orc'
Id ard. with a fair chance to see oe'
IN feeding. 1t is a restful occupatlo
III # is said that he will help his 1ath'
i'll in the having. But in those hui pa,
III lures the wagon is often tilted up
the steepness of the slope, and pitc
mo bav becomes a muscular perto
W nance perhaps little TOO hara i
n a man who has to write speech a
cepting a nomination for wee IRE
dent. 1
Il If Calvin Coolidge had stayed
j the old homestead at Plymouth Not
n he would be more interested IN {
nrice of milk and of hay per ton TN
in the Peace Treaty and the CoVeha
and he might have taken ms turn
GOING to the Legislature at Montp
Ter. which would have been his
most dignity. But he migrated "a a
had "faith in Massachusetts, VIM
he now enjoys upon others.
Whatever he is, whatever ne
comes, Plymouth, the old-1asnloi I
townships in the back country OF
Vermont hills, will have a share IN
fame. The composure of it's sl l
20 nlaces. the strength of its mounts
4 FORMS. entered into his character a
=. the simplicity of its plain tolk l.
\ been impressed upon his con 1nn;I
E With Nth men as he toiled up the tran
Al renown. Calvin Coolidge VIII nj
1ss other vacations, but none 10 DC :,
I M NON, with more satisfaction u
z the, The return to the haunts OF ms D
~sM hood and the threshold OF ,ne
ssd homestead, candidate OF the hepu
qua , nan party for Vice Presldent u
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