The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-03
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.


The Rev Mr.. Pratt of Dorset has been
pastor of the Congregational church of
shat town for more than Thirty years.
Last week he had donation party, and
scores of people from the surrounding
towns were present
There is some talk of starting n branch
of the Kelly cure in Bennington. There
ought to be ample material in that town
to keep the institute running for some
time. Perhaps Readsboro might furnish
one or two candidates. -ReddSbOrO En-
derpriSe.
G. B. Williams, has been postmaster at
Bondville. continuously, forty-two years
last December, receiving his first APP
pointment under the administration OF
President Pierce He will also have been
town clerk and treasurer forty-two years
the coming March.
The following have been appointed by
Gov. Fuller as commissioners under an
act entitled San act to establish bounda-
nv line monuments between Vermont
and Massachusetts,, approved Nov 18th,
1892" Kittridge Haskins of BrattleborO,
Lavant NJ. Read of Bellows Falls, JAS. X.
Batchelder of Arlington. E
The Rev. Charles H. Lancaster, rector
of Trinity Episcopal at Granville, n. Y,
died Friday afternoon, paralysis being
the cause of death. Mr.. Lancaster was
born in Bristol, England, in 1888. About
twenty years ago he had charge of the
parish at Waterford, and then removed
to Lake George, where he remained
eighteen years as rector of st. James
church.
John S. Warren, business man of
Washington county, n. Y, and well
known in the northern part of this and
Rutland counties was Frustrated with
paralysis Friday morning. He lived in
Granville and went from bis store to
Trinity church cemetery to make ar
rangements about the buriel of the Rev.
Mr.. Lancaster. On returning he went
to his house and complained of his head
feeling badly. Imme 1iately after he was
stricken down and now lies in a very
critical condition. 7tt.a HtlHtN
Last week we gave short account of
the 18th birthday of Mrs. Orrin Bates of
Pownal At that gathering there we're
five people whose aggregate ages were
400, Present; B. E. Brownell, the Rev.
Goettel. Mrs. Goettei, Mrs, Rev; Clark,
MrS Kew. nTurrru, II. pupu, J. Hall, A.
S1-isfi.nt, B. Barber, l.. Bennett, J, Laid.
a. Laid, G. Evans, s, j. Gardner, G. H.
Barber, W. Burgess, w. Towslee, ID, +,
Bates, F. PettibOne, A, Thompson, A.
Paddock. S. Wright, A. II. Potter, W..
Herman, E. A. Potter, G. 7. Parke A.
Mason, A. B. Gardner, A. Benjamin and
Misses A. Spencer, Marietta and Melissa
Lincoln, L. Gardner and G. Parker.
AT Washington, D. c., yesterday oc-
Cured the death of Mary Danferth DIN,
widow of Judge Abram B. DIN. Mrs.
DIN, who was eighty-two years of age,
formerly resided in this city, where her
husband was eminently successful at the
bar and in politics. Judge DIN repre-
scented this district in Congress from 1856
to 1860, and also acted as recorder of
Troy. During the war he was appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court in the Dis
trict of Columbia and he removed to
Washington. Judge Olin's death oc-
Cured six years ago. Mrs. DIN was a
daughter of Hon. Reyes Danforth of
Williamstown, Mass, and sister of Mrs.
George Brown of Rhode Island, Mrs.
Joseph White of Williamstown, Mrs. A.
G. Geer of Hoosick Falls, and Hon.
Reyes DanfOrth of Williamstown. She
had no children.-Troy Press, Saturday.