The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-07
He WILL PROBABLY Die.
Trial Justice Horace W.
Bush Stricken With
Paralysis.

West Brookf1eld, April 6.-Trial JUS
tice Horace w. Bush, who has been
confined to his home about 10 days
from sickness, suffered a shock this
morning, about o'clock, and now lies
unconscious at his home on High
street, and it is doubtful if he ever re-
gains consciousness. His daughter and
her husband, DIR. Charles Forbes OF
Athol, were telegraphed for, and ar
rived at o'clock
Judge Bush has been trial justice for
20 years, town clerk for nearly the
same length Of time, tax collector and
assessor of taxes for years, and it Will
be hard to find man who will perform
the same services for the town in as
faithful and conscientious manner as
Mr.. Bush has for many years.
Judge Bush was a forty MINER" and
tried his fortunes for a time on the
Pacific slope. He was member OF the
state police during the prohibitory pc
Rod. Mr.. Bush was also veteran OF
the civil war, being a recruit of Co b.
Forty-second Massachusetts regiment
Mr.. Bushs advice was always sought
and freely given in matters Of import
ance, and in this direction he was
looked upon as a sort of town council
or. He is about Y years of age, and
an ardent republican.
The annual supper of the West
Brookfield Farmers Club was held last
evening, in the town hall. At 30
o'clock over 800 people sat down to the
loaded tables to partake Of escalloped
oysters, baked beans, cold meat, pies,
cakes and fruit.
After sad havoc had been done to the
viands, the exercises of the evening
commenced. Fred White, president Of
the club, acted as chairman. The en-
teTtainment was as follows: Vocal
duet, Miss Louise Converse and Miss
Olive Thompson of Warren; vocal solo,
John Newell of Warren-D. G. Hitch
cock pianist; reading, Miss Elsie Con-
verse; vocal solo, Miss Cora Thompson;
reading, Rev. A. B. Clifford; high school
quartet, Roy Haskins, Webster Ken
drick, Carl Woods and Edward Car
ruth. Dea. Cheney and Mr.. Phette-
place next sang a duet the extreme
novelty of which consisted of the fact
that the combined age of the two gen.
tlemen was 166 years.
Mrs. Wallace Tucker next gave a
reading, which was followed by a song
by Miss Eliza Cunningham, the talent
ed young vocalist of West Broolfield.
Miss Elsie Converse gave another read
inb. This young miss is about nine
years of age, but her reading is I'M
eXcelled by but very few of older
years and more experience, and was
enthusiastically received, eliciting an
encore each time. Mrs. Nellie Smith
Gould then sang a solo, being assisted
at the piano by Miss Mabel Barnes.
Mr.. Kibby, who is warden of the town
farm at Brimfeld, next sang a solo, fol-
lowed by the reading of 1.-The raven"
by Sumner H. Reed; solo by John
Newell; harmonica solo by arthur
Bates. The evenings entertainment
closed with a duet by Olive Thompson
and Louise Converse.
The program, which was a very long
one, was heightened considerably by
the encOres which We're received by
most of the performers and which We're
literally accorded by the artists, and
the audience left shortly after 10
o'clock, well pleased with the yearly
supper and entertainment of the Farm
ers' Club of West Brookfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Garrett are in
New York, and were present today at
the marriage of Mag. Charles Edmund
Davis Of Albany and Mrs. Charles Car
ter of Honolulu.