The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-01-06
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Former President
Will Be Buried at
Old Vermont Home

lamp as the nations chief executive
many years ago, and his son. Calvin
Jr., cut off in young manhood.
Simple services will be held in Ed
wards Congregational church here.
Each Sunday Calvin and Grace
Coolidge attended services there.
There will be an organist and a
choir, Saturday morning. Grace
Coolidge had been accustomed to add
her voice to that choir and found in
the recent Christmas musical pro-
gram an enchantment obvious to the
congregation.
The widespread desire of people in
official life to honor the former
president will make the funeral
most impressive ceremony despite the
desire to keep the services simple and
brief.
The presidential special. carrying
President Hoover from Washington,
will arrive Saturday morning and
another special train carrying con-
gressional representatives and other
high officials, is expected.
Heartfelt tributes came Fl m
throughout the world
Between $3.50 and $50 Saturday
morning the public will be permitted
to file past the former presidents
bier.
List Honorary Pallbearers
The honorary pallbearers are all old
friends and associates Of the former
president. They include Frank
c<no~oc noc%0x ,,oorotov,< o~d for
many years q confidant of Mr.. Cool
idge: William Whiting. Holyoke paper
manufacturer on whom Coolidge
called to fill the post of secretary Of
commerce; Judge Thomas ]. Ham.
lnond of the superior court. son OF
John c. Hammond. under whom CAL
vim Coolidge studied law as young
man: r. w. Hemenway. Coolidges law
partner: former United States Sen
ator william M. Butler, Homer G.
Bliss, mayor Of Northampton; John
H. Trumbull, former governor of Con-
necticut. and Charles E. Andrews,
classmate of Coolidge at Amherst
and present treasurer Of the college.
Six members Of the Northampton
police force will bear the coffin.
Plans for the funeral completed to-
day, were that the former presidents
body would leave 1.-THE Beeches" at 8
o'clock for the church.
From $50 to $3.50 it will lie in state
with q guard of honor selected from
the local National Guard unit. The
church services will be brief, lasting
only from 1890 to IL. There will be
a wait of a half hour before the motor
cortege leave; for Plymouth. VT
where interment will take place at
the Coolidge family plot.
. Mrs. Coolidge plans to return to
Northampton Immediately after burial
services.
Mrs. Coolidge still wore her street
costume when she came upon her
husband PROSTATE on the floor. She
hurried down the stair case, calling
for Harry Ross, who was more than
a secretary-perhaps companion
to the former president.
Bore Up Bravely
"Shc bore up bravely, remarkably
bravely," said Ross, afterwards. And
then Ross called the family doctor,
and Mr.. Coolidge's son, John, from
New Haven. John came to North
ampton as fast as an automobile
could bring him, and then came Frank
w. StearnS, Boston merchant, known
since the days CALVIN Coolidge Occu-
pied the state house at Boston as his
adviser. Elderly Frank StearnS was
SO overcome by the sudden and UNI
expected termination of q long-stand-
ing friendship that he would not dis
cuss 1t even through secretary who
accompanied him.
William Whiting, Holyoke paper
manufacturer, who succeeded Her.
bert Hoover as secretary OF commerce,
and his wife. were among the first
to arrive after death spread its wings
over the "Beeches." They arrived as
messenger boys peddled up the gravel
ed walk with mlssives OF condolences
from the nations great-Herbert
Hoover, his successor. and Alfred E.
Smith, who sought that honor.
There were other messages; and
wires still hum. Trains will continue
to debark notables. but those who
will follow Calvin Coolidge home will
trace a tortuouS trail, through the
hills and valleys and "notches more
than a hundred miles to the north
ward-to the ancestral home of the
Coolidges at Plymouth, vt.
Home Was Imposing
THE Beeches," the imposing home
which he occupied here upon his re-
turn from Washington, was in sharp
contrast with the simplicity which
characterized his quarters in the days
refore his election to the presidency.
Then he occupied one hall Of du-
Elex house on an unpretentious street,
the same place he had lived in prac-
tically since his marriage up to and
including the time he was governor
of Massachusetts.
The former president took little or
no part in state politics since his re-
tirement. Only recently he CURLY
declined to be drawn into discussion
of the availability OF several different
men for the post of chairman OF the
Republican State Committee.
Aside from visits to his birthplace
in Vermont and to meetings OF the
New York Life Insurance company
il. New York. Mr.. Coolidge did little
travelling.
He devoted much attention recently
to renovating the old homestead
where he spent some Of the happiest
days Of his boyhood.
He guarded his privacy carefully
and his visits In New York were u.s.
ually accomplished without any pub
lie notice 1T all.
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