Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-19
GOV. COOLIDGE .
IS RESTING ON .
IN .oa-anAHI
fHlHLn q o"s,1 iss'ss:, issSs:,;
G. 0. P. Vice Presidential
Nominee and Family Are
Spending Several Weeks
Among Hills of Vermont.


Plymouth. VT. July lS,-Gover-
nor Calvin Coolidge Of Massachu-
sets. republican nominee for vice
president, is "on rest With Mrs.
Coolidge and their two sons, John
and Calvin, he is on his fathers
farm in the hills of Vermont. He
finds the best way to rest is to
rise early and help his father do
the farm work.
The farm, hilly one situated
at the top of Plymouth notch, con-
sists of over 200 acres, partly wood
ed and partly cultivated, Long
meadows and fields of hay and oats
are banked with fruit trees, heavily
laden with sweet Vermont apples
and juicy plums.
The farm house, sandwiched be-
tween the Plymouth cheese factory
and the home of Governor Cool
idge's aunt, Mrs. j. j. Wilder, is
cozy New England home, white
with swinging green blinds.
The governor has risen at
o'clock every morning since his ar
rival on his 4Sth birthday July 4,
| He usually puts on his grandtath-
er's togs, consisting of an old flan-
| onel shirt, denim trousers and old
| fashioned Cowhide boots, made at
! the Plymouth tannery in 1915.
History of the Boots.
He reCites with interest the his
tory of the boots They We're made
for his grandfather when he was
elected to the legislature at Mont
peller in 1858 and he wore them
continuously throughout the ses-
sion. Governor Coolidge wears
them now when he 'tinkers'
around the farm.
A frack which the governor
wears when he works in the fields,
is a relic of his grandfather days
1t is of denim and slides over the
head like an army shirt and Is not
unlike the froCks worn by artists.
I'm it, the governor portraNS an en-
tireN different man from the one
who sits i'm the Boston capitol, i'm
maculate!y attired.
BY way of adding TO his hearty
appetite for the splendid country
cooking prepared by his father 5
housekeeper, the governor goes into
the meadows before the mist has
cleared and muws Il gOod.y sized
corner of the field he,ore the
breakfast bill rings, He says 1t Is
much more invigorating than golt
and fully as remunerative, although
he humorously adds that some
chaps make more at golf than they
won d at farming
j. G. Coolidge has a large wood
nile in front of the house. Mos'
of II was originally chopped loI
stove wood but several chunks were
\ left for the open fireplace, When
! the elderly farmer. who is 10 years
!, old. returned from fishing trll
I recently he found all the larger
pieces slithered to. kindlng and
learned that car had spent part
> of the forenoon Justly swinging the
D axe, The old gentleman said moth.
= ing about the wood being intended
, for the fireplace, but smiled, went
j in the house and prepared an ap'
petiZing mess" of brook tf"u'
' from the Ottaqucchee.
Father Is Town Constable.
The governors father has becl
town constable for forty years ah'
= , member of the legislature tot
nearly as long, His aunt, Mrs. D. j
= Wilder, who is past so years INe'
= in the adjoining house She ah'
CAL sat all of one afternoon
y reminscing of the days when tn'
= town was snow bound ana uatl''
i impossible, ,.,,,,,
e Governor Coolidge first learned
= of the nomination of Governor Co'
e and Franklin ID. Roosevelt tor th'
democratic ticket the day after UNI
= nominations were hlade, my ~"