Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1923 — Page 3

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT’S FEATURE PAGE

P R E<S IDE N T CALVIN COOLIDGE

Calvin Coolidge, new President of the United States, began life on his father’s farm at Plymouth, Vermont. .' tiny hamlet nestled in the heart of the Green Mountains. He was born on Independence Day, in 1872. He did the hard work that every farmer boy knows, and to this day retains many of the quiet ways and much of the homely philosophy of the farm. Hut farming was not to be young Coolidge’s career, for early in his teens he began planning to ’’get to college." H»s father, John C. Coolidge, and the quiet mother who, before her marriage, was Victoria Moor both came from a long line of Yankee farmers used to the toil of the soil, and they encouraged the ambitions

Familiar Poses of the Late President Harding

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IT PAYS TO LIME Switzerland County Farmer Experiments With Liming His Land Vevay, Ind., Aug. 4 —Sam Osborne

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I of their son for an education. Then followed years of hard work, and finally in 1895 Coolidge was graduated from Amherst ns an honor student. He at once began the study of law in the office of Hammond & Field in Northampton. Mass. In less than two years ho was admitted to the bar and began active practice in an office of his own. It is a question whether Coolidge had ambitions in his youth for a political career. His first step toward ’ the high position he holds today camo when the county clerk died suddenly. The young lawyer was chosen to serve the unexpired term, but he refused to run for that office when Republican loaders of the town urged

of Switzerland county, limed 10 acres in a 12 acre field of white slash land, leaving a two acre check strip. That i fail, he sowed wheat and seeded it to;

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, AUG. 4, 1923.

him to bo their candidate. The people of Northampton liked Coolidge, and in 1899 he was elected to the city council, although he did not seek the office. At the same time he was made city solicitor and gainid much experience in law. in 1905 Calvin Coolidge was quietly married to Grace Goodhue, of Burlington. Vermont. Mrs Coolidge was thi n teaching school in Northampton, and so quiet was the young lawyer's courtship that few knew anything about it until the wedding was announced. From the time Coolidge entered Northampton’s city hall his political r’se was steady. He was elected to various offices and eventually became

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red am’ alsikc clover in in the spring of 1922. On June 27, John Allen took picj tures ol Osborne’s little experiment.

MONROE NEWS Lie. hty Bros. & Co.. Thursday morning began the excavation for the installing of one of the latest and modern Indian gasoline pumps which will be completed by Saturday. A 500-gal-lon tank will be placed underground, and a 5 gallon throw pump will bo put up. This will be a very attractive gas station. The plant is being put in by Mr. Parks Elliott, the Indian gasoline agent of Bluffton. Watch for the Indian sign. Mr. and Mr.: C. W. Merryman and Mr, and Mrs. Fred Foster, are visitin'. relatives al Odd'- ■•ater, Mich., and other points this week. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Hilty, formerly of Fi-gle Lake. Kans., but now of Fh rlda; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rickenbaugh and children, and Mrs. Mary Hance ' cl’ Blull'ton. Ohio, were guest . of Mr. and Mrs. ,T. 11. Badders Thursday. Rev Mont C. Oliver arrived here Wednesday for a short visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Oliver. Rev. Oliver is now located at Anderson where lie has a charge at the M. E .church at that place, but resides at Upland. Mr. Oliver has received ' and accepted a call from the M. E. church at Flint, Mich., and will take

mayor. His entrance into state polities same in 1911 when he was elected to the Massachusetts state senate. He was in the senate for four years, two of which he acted as president of that body. Coolidge was elected lieutenantgovernor of Massachusetts in 1915 while Samuel McCall was governor. In 1918 he was elected governor, and in 1919 was re-elected to that office. While Coolidge was well known in his own state, it was not until the Boston police strike occurred, in 1919, that his fame became worldwide. His determined stand in the emergency and his staunch declaration for a policy of "law and order”

t The limed field looked good for tons to the acre, while check strip ■ was mostly tickle grass and not worth . cutting for hay.

charge as pastor on September IS. Heavy rainstorms did much damage to the corn crop in this vicinity this week. Dennis Wolfe has opened up his new garage in the old livery barn this week, on east Andrews street, and is now ready for business. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Badders and Miss Blanche Tablet- were business visitors in Fort Wayne Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Heller and daughter, Miss Mildred, left Friday morning for Silver Springs, Mich., on a few days outing and rest. 'Mr. and Mrs. Emil Rinehart on last Sunday entertained at dinner at a family gathering. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rinehart. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Rine hart and son. Clyose, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kipfeu and children, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hirschig, Vera and Elwood. Mr. Dennis and Miss Berne Treup. and Mr. Henry Rinehart. The Town Board of Trustees will meet in regular session next Tuesday evening. —o — Finger Ring Oldest Ornament. The linger ring is the oldest ornament. In Genesis Joseph id mentioned us receiving a ring from I'lutrtioli. Tills was about 1450 B. C. They have been found on mummies of an earlier date, [[oilier mentions “bracelets and chains" )n his heroes, but does not mention rings. Homer was about 1000 B. C.

Osborne has since purchased a' small crusher, which ho pulls with a | tractor. He says it is necessary to get the stones off the hillsides before they W.SMMHFWNM >WMa.«aa-> “• ‘

RAID STILL LOCATED BY AIRPLANE MAP .71 r kWnr i ■ 'v*< ■ Av.. ■ - - '• n" . - Mil - iifiiMMff a. ~ ~?A - 3 * / SURRATTSVILLE, Nd.—Use of airplanes in detect mg st’lN v. :. prov. d practical the other da\ when a party of internal revenue agents, headed by Ralph Ruby and Fid Rose of \Va hingtOn, I). unit following a map made from the air, seized a 000 gallon still. 10.000 gallons of corn mash and 23 gallon, 01 fii; t run. corp whiskey in a dense patch of woods near Surrattsville, Md.

whatever might come, put him in the national spotlight. • Coolidge was nominated for VicePresident in the national convention in 1920. and on March 5, 1921, this quiet man, who says little but thinks much and acts with decision, became Vice-President of the United States. Coolidge has the conservative character of the traditional Yankee. He never speaks without weighing his words long and carefully, and he says what he thinks in as few words as possible. He abhors show and effection and lives a simple life. While in .".orlh ampton the Coolidges occupied half of a two-family house, for which he I paid the moderate sum ci $32 a

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will make a pasture, ami e uses this | lime in building up his uai land. To 1 I date, Osborne has lime'.’ 52 acres at j the rate of 3% tons to the acre and

month. Tl.e Coolidges have two sons, John and Calvin, Jr., who are still in their teens. Mis. Coolidge's interest has always been almost exclusively in her home, her husband and her boys. She cares very I ttlo for society or club life, and outside her home her Interest has been almost exclusively in the Rod Cross. The untimely death of President II ding on August 2nd made Calvin Cooidge, president of the United Stiiti s. He took Ids oath of office nt 2:17 Friday, Atigu < Grd, it being admini t c d to him by his father. John Coolidge, a notary public in a humble little cottage at Plymouth, Vermont.

lintends to I’mo 30 acres this fall. \—s_.s_WAXT ADS EARN—J—3— 1 I— ? - »—WANT ADS EARN—S—3—S