The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-01-07
PAYS LAST HONORS
| TO Both PRESIDENT
AT SIMPLE SERVICE
Friends and Neighbors, High
and LowIy, Join in Pay.
ing Respects
PRESIDENT HOOVER THERE
Huge Crowd Stands Silent In.
der Chill, Grey Sky As
Services Proceed

Northampton. Mass, Jan. 7-(R-
The nation he served paid its last
honors Saturday to Calvin Coolidge.
goth president Of the United States.
Friends and neighbors, the leaders
IN public life where he once walked,
the high and the lowly, joined to pay
their final respects in q brief and
simple funeral service, such as he
would have wished.
President Hoover, who took up the
burden Calvin Coolidge laid down in
Washington not quite four years ago.
the vice president, the chief justice
OF the United States, others In the
national government and the chief
executives of states of his native
New England were here.
In the congregation that filled the
few hundred seats of the Jonathan
Edwards Congregational church, were
also Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
James Roosevelt, the wife and the son
OF the man who, in q few weeks will
take the office Calvin Coolidge once
held as president.
Crowd Waits in Street
Outside, in the street. beneath q
chill, grey sky, crowd, unable to
gain admittance to the church, stood
silently, heads bowed as the service
moved to close.
They parted to form q reverent
lane, through which the casket was
borne later to the motor hearse in
which 1t began the 100-mile drive
| northward to the old homestead at
Plymouth, VT, to be laid at rest in
the family burial plot.
Mrs. Coolidge. with her only son,
John, and his wife at her side. sat
through the service in q front pew.
With her, in the same pew. were
President and Mrs. Hoover. Directly
before them, and below the flower
banked pulpit, stood the casket.
The former presidents widow wore
no mourning veil. She was pale, but
her face was calm and serene.
Vice President Curtis and Chief
Justice Hughes occupied seats in Z
pew to the right OF Mrs. Coolidge and
the president.
Behind Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Rooee.
welt and her son occupied a pew and
nearby sat Secretary Of State stimson
and others high in the national gov
eminent. In the congregation, too,
were representatives Of foreign gov
ernments. the French ambassador and
others.
It was few minutes before 1890.
when the service was to begin, that the
! President and Mrs. Hoover entered.
AS they walked to their pew, the or
ganist played the soft movement from
the new world" symphony. through
| which run the strains Of an old Ne
gro spiritual, Going Home"
Mrs. Coolidge had asked that 1t be
| played.
! Rise As Widow Enters
The president sat with his head
bowed, rising with the congregation
as Mrs. Coolidge entered the audi
forum.
The Rev. Albert J. Penner, youth
full pastor Of very old church, took
his place in the pulpit.
He uttered q brief invocation and
a quartet sang Lead Kindly Light y
The clergyman read the scripture
and began his prayer in which were
the only references to the former
president.
1T is not alone a grief-stricken ma
ton which bows before Thee" the
prayer said. 1T is thankful ma
ton. as well.
I'VE thank Thee for the life Of
thank Thee for what his life has
meant to the country and the world.
We thank Thee for the exemplary
devotion which he showed to the dis
charge Of all his public duties. We
thank Thee for the faithfulness with
which he served his town.
I'VE thank Thee for the measure
Of dedication which he brought to the
service Of the commonwealth. And,
above all, do we bless Thee for the
conservation with which he served
his country In the highest office
within the gift Of the people. He
kept the faith which the people
placed in him.
-. may we not begrudge him,
whose loss We so deeply mourn, thu
rest with Thee which he has q
richly deserved, moving that BY tn
mercy and grace he finished hi
course, having kept the faith"
As he rose to begin his prayer, the
congregation, at the request Of the
clergyman. sat for . moment ia
silence.
Choir Sings Softly
Softly, the choir sang. 20, Love
That VIII Not Let Ne CO."
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