Fifty & Sanctuary

P:The President promised his host, Howard E. Coffin, that he would return to Sapelo next winter and shoot the deer which he missed last fortnight. P:Returning to Washington, Mrs. Coolidge found many a letter, many a telegram of congratulation. The day of her return was her fiftieth birthday. P:The President is expected to make only two more public speeches before his retirement from office. One will be delivered Jan. 28 at the semi-annual business meeting of the government departments. The second speech will also deal with conservation, will be given Feb. 1 at the dedication of the carillon and bird sanctuary established by Edward W. Bok at Mountain Lake, Fla.

P:President Coolidge telegraphed felicitations to President Moncada of Nicaragua, wished for President Moncada a prosperous administration. P:Governor John H. Trumbull, whose daughter will soon become Mrs. John Coolidge, plans to have the Connecticut legislature authorize the addition of another member to the Governor's staff. Then the Governor will name John Coolidge as this new member. Precedent for the Governor's plan is found in the fact that, 20 years ago, Connecticut Governor George L. Lilley made a staffman out of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

P:The President received Senator Sackett. Republican, of Kentucky, who asked him to approve a measure appropriating $100,000 for improving and maintaining the Lincoln Farm with its log cabin in which Lincoln was born. P:The President recommended that Congress appropriate $5,000 for the "purchase and exchange" of an automobile for the Vice President, fiscal year 1929. Thus when Senator Curtis becomes Vice President he will have a new car for which Vice President Dawes' automobile will have been traded in.

P:President Coolidge received at the White House, with plain Yankee welcome, James Lucey, 73, Northampton, Mass., shoemaker whom the President once saw fit to call "Master." It was to the rude folk-wisdom, uttered at slow intervals by the cobbler at his bench while Mr. Coolidge, then a young lawyer, stood listening, that the President long years later ascribed his political success. When Mr. Coolidge was elected Vice President he invited Lucey to visit him. "Not now," said Cobbler Lucey; "I guess I'll wait till you get on that upper perch." Again, when Mr. Coolidge became President, he repeated the invitation. "Not now," the cobbler replied; "I don't want people to think I'm one of those office seekers." But last week James Lucey drove with a son over to Springfield, caught the train south. "I guess you can't accuse me of doing things in a hurry."