Show ILLNESS GOMES COMES FROM DEVOTION Col Coolidge r of Sons eons p or t r PLYMOUTH Vt t March 16 It By The Th A Associated a The Press father of o 11 ft p Ii 18 I III and broken In hi Jil farm home here and nd the tim ilfe bots of or Col Colonel ol OI onel JOhn J hn C Coolidge have dla diar hIs ble h ailment T The e natural o ot of a father whom son on at- at attaIned att Ined th tho position In the theland theland land nd played a larre l rr part In the tho breakdoWns breakdown they they mAIn mAIn- mAIntaIn maln taIn tam In rn the th g general I store stor where the nel neighbors gather each day to reo re re reports from rom the th sIck tick room they tell the th story dory Three y-ar y y OO TO Colonel Clonel Coolidge then lather of th vice vico was hale hal and hearty despite hla hie hl advanced age Then Then came earn the events of Augut when Calvin Coot Cool lr to the th presIdency pre and bl bill father administered the oath of orrt office office e In lri the th boyhood home From that time began brgan the th recline In health that finally brought broucht Colonel to f deaths death's death s door do r Plymouth became the mecca of f thousand who ho bo wished to see ee the birthplace of A a Col Colonel nol Coolidge filled with pride prid In ln hit his hisson hi hiton son on believed It t It his hb hI duty to recd all who came Many who who could not make the thc to the little Green mountain hamlet wrote rote lettera letten and Colonel Coolidge 10 iO facile correspondent the letters letter himself elf A man man of quIet and simple was 1 pruned Int Into the nl midst ot t-of t affair fair Then rs ay 1 h 13 16 pat pat pa t he price with Itts Iris his health The colonel never wasl I was ae ill In n hili hl ii life lit until a year alo ko th h e storyteller tellers of the th genera entra store I IOn On his eIghtieth birthday bi March 31 last la t he h admitted for the th fIr time that his hie health health wa was we jailing Not long after that Boston spec specialists peo found that he utter d froma Croma from Crom a heart affection and late In June TuLe he wa was stricken with the th tint first 01 ofa of ofa a erles of serious Illnesses The Th to o colonl d to what hat he be deemed to be his hii duty as a father of th the president haa baa become a Ply Ply- Plymouth Plymouth mouth tradition When weak wIth ness he would how hia hla about the scenes scene of Calvin Caln Coot Cool early day day dars would t tell atones of his hl hi son aon tonK boyhood and then turn to greet Long after midnight A would alt it at his hi hide desk deak k answering letter lettera receIved from all parts pants of the country When frIends friend ho h replied that he felt It his duty to do these thing Last summer Just juat before he sub sub- submitted submitted sub submitted to a a grave crave operation he arose from hla hi coach to receive II a woman who came earn the thi way from Wisconsin to see ee him Miss Misa Au- Au Aurora Aurora Au Aurora rora Pierce the th housekeeper had attempted to bar the caller caner but Colonel Coolidge heard the th voices and came cam out It was his opinion that none non should be turned away |