The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-19
SETTLED OVER a.soo ESTATES.

Only Scant Halt Dozen Appeals From
the Dectees Issued by Judge Bush
S ice He Has Been IN Office.
Turing the terms in which Judge
Ma hew Bush has been serving the
people of Shiawassee county as judge
of lrobate, the matter of the settlement
OF between twenty-five hundred and
three thousand estates has been acted
on by that court, a number fully equa
to twice as many as had been passed on
by the court from the day of its install
lation in 1897 up to the time when
Judge Bush assumed the duties of the
position. The total value of the
property which has thus been disposed
of during his incumbency in the Office
has also increased in a like ratio.
During that time, however, and in all
of the cases thus disposed of there have
been but bare half dozen, in fact less
than half dozen, appeals taken from
his decision to the circuit court. OF
the cases appealed only one was re-
versed althO final settlement is still
pending in another. The record is a
credit indeed to the gentlemanly OIL
cial who has filled the position so salts
factorily to the taxpayers in general
and those who have been brought into
business relations with the probate
court. Incidentally the honors for the
record which the court has made are
shared by one of the most efficient pro-
bate registers who ever served any
county, Miss Katherine K. Kelsey,
whose services it is needless to say, the
county will continue to derive benefit
from in the event of Judge Bush's re.
election.
Accuracy and good judgment are es-
sential qualities in the office of the judge
of probate, and the above summary OF
the record of the three terms which
Judge Bush has had show conclusively
that he possesses those traits OF
character in a marked degree, but
there are other qualities which are i'm
portant in any public officer and es.
pecially important in the judge of pro-
bate. In an office where large part OF
the business has to be transacted either
with or for minor children, or by widow
ed mothers suddenly obliged tolook after
business matters with which they have
had no sort of experience whatever, a
kindly disposition, and encouraging
way of making the legal knots to be
united seem as easy as possible, mean
more oftentimes than many dollars.
That Judge Bush has earned reputa-
ton for the most sympathetic and
responsive kind of sympathy with any
who are inexperienced in the settle
ment of legal affairs is a statement
which is easy for any who have ever
transacted business at the Office during
his term to believe. BY being ready at
all times to give whatever counsel and
advice is needed or desired he has
saved manv dollar to the patrons of
the office who have been enabled to
transact their business to very great
degree for themselves.
Mr.. Bush has been resident OF this
county since 1879 when he moved to
this state from New York and settled at
Vernon where he practiced law for nine
years before he was elected judge OF
probate. He did not seek the renomina-
ton this year at the hands of the re.
publican convention, and did not Sc
much as ask single delegate to vote
for him. He was never theless the
unanimous choice of the convention tol
the nomination. The members of his
party know what his record has beer
in the office which he holds and the
taxpayers and voters throughout the
county are certain to endorse the actor
of the county republican convention
by giving him rousing majority Two
weeks from next Tuesday.