The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-08-04
SHORT HISTORY
OF WAYMAR1
|. j. DimOCk Tells What
it Used to be
OFFICE OF JUSTICE OF PEACE
IN DIMOCK FAMILY 60
YEARS.

This town was made borough !
in 1851 five years before Scranton"
said Justice of the Peace L. G.
Dimock, of Waymart, to a Citizen
man, Wednesday.
" From 1928 to 1868 they used
to dump all the large lump coal
here, winters, and go down to Homes
dale and put it in boats. There were
about 500 people here in 1865. All
the families were very large.
"Now we have a knitting mill,
two creameries, a glass factory,
three or four stores.
mo one who was brought up here
has ever been in States prison that
1 know Of" laughingiy replied the
Squire when asked whether any one
had left the town and gone out into
the great wide world and acquired
fame.
81 was born in this town just
this side of the cut glass factory.
There were eight in our family.
Most all the families in town at that
time, were from six to eight chill
dren Now you can go up this street
and find hardly a dozen children"
remarked the Squire who seemed to
deplore this apparent attack of race
suicide from which the thriving
They had Patterson's tannery
here, when l was boy. They load
ed coal here in Spring on cars, and
took it to Honesdale and put it on
the boats"
The office of Justice of the Peace
at Waymart has been in the Dimock
family for 65 years. In 1916, Asa
W. Dimock, the father of the pres
ent Squire took out his first COM
mission, and was succeeded by his
son who has been filling the i'm
portant Office most acceptably since
1888.
Waymart came into prominence a
number of years ago, when muir
der was committed there, for which
man was sent to States prison for
twenty years. About two years ago
a man hung himself from tree be-
hind the hotel, after trying to COM
NIT suicide in two or three differ
ent ways.
=" 1 am next to the oldest man that
was born in this town." remarked
Squire Dimock. Luther Bryant is
the burgess. We don't have high
constable, but we should have one.
There is talk of raising up the town
hall and putting stone basement
under it,
DR.. H. G. Noble happened to be
on the 'Squire's front porch, and
talked about the health of the COM
munity, which is very good, he de-
clared.
There's two or three very mild
cases of typhoid fever" he said.
There is some hay fever around
here, although we are 400 or 500
feet higher than Honesdale. l cure
every one of them. | never had a
case to beat me yet.
l have cured people from Scran.
ton. l just went to work several
years ago, and found something thai
does the business. You can't find il
in any of the books"
Doctor Noble by the way doesn't
favor the hospital project. There:
already too many hospitals in the
country" he said. They have
their tag days, and go to the mer
chants and get the greatest lot O.
stuff and sell it, and pretend it cost
too much. It's a graft"
In his opinion no hospital surgeon
could be secured, and an exper
would have to be sent for, at a pro
hibitive cost, from Scranton or New
York.
In a town the size of Honesdal,
there is no use for a public hospital
1t wouldn't pay anybody. A privat
individual enterprise might flourish
Ali this information and mucl
more, the reporter CLEANED as he sa
on the verandah of the Squire
colonial residence waiting for de
fendant in suit of assumpsit t.
show up.
The Sheriff of Wayne county, NJ
Lee Braman, was the defendant il
the case; and judgment in defaul
was entered against him for the sur
of SIS, and costs. Doctor Noble wa
the plaintiff. He alleges that he lei
a rain coat in Sheriff Braman's liy
cry, last Winter, at the Sheriff's sue
gestion, that it would be perfect
safe. When he returned to tn
stable, after transacting business /
the county seat, the raincoat wa
non est inventus, and so he decided
after six months delay, to brin
suit against Sheriff Braman. Del
uty Constable P. ]. Moran served
summons on the sheriff July 26, bu
the Sheriff didn't show up at WAY
mart Wednesday afternoon for
hearing.
Earl Sherwood, Esq, was ais
present at the hearing, and althoug
he said that "he hadn't done an
Justice business for long time" b
made out the papers with a ski
that Washington, d. c., or Phili
delphia lawyer might we'll envy.
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