Evening star., 1925-10-04
TODAY C00UDGE'S
10th ANNIVERSARY
Wed Teacher Two Decades
Ago-No Plans for Cele-
bration Made. :.

Twenty. years ago today a red
headed young lawyer Of Northampton,
Mass. and pretty, young school
teacher of Burlington, VT. whom he
had met some months before on va
cation, were married in the front
parlor of all unpretentious home in
Burlington.
The red.headed lawyer became
mayor, the mayor became governor
, the governor became Vice President
and the Vice President became Chief
Executive Of his country, and today
he and his wife are celebrating quietly
at the White House the anniversary
OF that momentous ceremony a score
Of years back.
Have No Plans.
President and Mrs. Coolidge have
made no plans for observing the oc-
casion formally today. They expect
to attend church this morning as
usual and this afternoon they will
leave for Omaha. where the President
Is to address the American Legion
convention Tuesday
The anniversary celebration at the
White House today could be no quieter
than was the picturesque little home
wedding OF Attorney Calvin Coolidge
and Miss Grace Goodhue on the after
noon of October 4, 1905. Even in those
days Mr.. Coolidge was known as that
quiet young man." and no one was
greatly surprised when he insisted on
simple wedding at the brides home,
devoid Of such extras as music,
best man and bridesmaid.
The Burlington Free Press told the
news the next morning under the head:
Sought Burlington Bride. Calvin
Coolidge OF Northampton Weds Miss
Grace Goodhue.' The afternoon
paper copied it under the conventional
headline Coolidge -Goodhue," and
added the pertinent comment that
the bride is popular in a wide circle
of friends and the groom is a sue
cessful attorney in Northampton"
Wedding Was Important.
Back in Northampton the Hamp-
shire Gazette celebrated the marriage
under a prominent head: Welded in
Queen City. Attorney Calvin Cool
idge Becomes q Benedict. Bride, Miss
Grace Goodhue of Burlington, VT"
The wedding was important enough
for the Burlington Free Press to send
reported to the Goodhue home
while the decorations We're being
placed to get all the facts for a
story" Worried after the reporter
had gone for fear that the account
might go in the paper wrong, young
Coolidge went around to the Free
Press Office himself and made sure
all the information was correct.
The first line of the story as printed
the following morning was: "A quiet
home wedding occurred yesterday
afternoon"
The paper was right, according to
Mrs. Goodhue Lowell, who was pres
ent at the ceremony. The wedding
was not only quiet. but very pretty,
despite the absence OF the wedding
march. best man, etc.
There were about Is relatives and
friends in the parlor, all invited infor-
mally. as 4 o'clock, the time set for
the nuptials, approached. Rev. Ed
ward Hungerford. former minister OF
the First Congregational Church of
Burlington Uhe church at the time
was without regular pastor), stood
in bay window, Bible at hand. He
had been there the night before for
rehearsal.
The Ceremony.
Promptly at o'clock there was a
stir at the top of the stairs and the
! wedding party began its descent
Miss Goodhue and Attorney Coolidge
were in front; then the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew 1. Good
hue; the bridegroom's parents, Col
and Mrs. John c. Coolidge of Ply.
mouth, and others.
The bridegroom was attired in con
ventional afternoon garb. with black
frock coat. The bride wore a gray
dress of simple lines, and her face was
swathed in bushes.
The voice Of the minister intoned