Dale News, Volume 5, Number 8, Dale, Spencer County, 27 March 1942 — Page 1

THE DALE NEWS

VOL. V

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1942

NUMBER 8

COMMUNITY SADDENED BY DEATH OF P. W. FULLER

was extended over a period of many years; his service to his county as a member of the County Council for two terms, and for an appointive term as member of the Board of Commissioners, set him apart from many men because of his unselfish devotion to the interest of his fellow citizens. Nor did he forget his obligations to his church of which he was a member for almost sixty years. In his profession, followed for more than forty years, he ministered comfortingly to almost every home in his community; at times when ministry like his meant much to all of those with whom he came in contact in the practice of his profession. “And not in utter nakedness” did Mr. Fuller come into this world—for he was clothed with talents that he unstintingly used in the services of his fellow man. The world perhaps will never know how many lives were influenced by the lessons which he taught in his Sunday School for almost fifty years. The talents with which he came into the world endowed were never buried in the ground but were always used and thus were multiplied and by their use and increase his value to his home community was increased many fold. Not only was Mr. Fuller clothed with talent but through his life he literally was “trailed with clouds of glory” for his benefactions and his unselfish devotion to his people; and we may of a certainty believe that he did “come from God” who was his “Home” and that when he departed this life on March 23, 1942, he simply returned to that home from which the poet would have us think that he had come. His immediate family having preceded him in death, there are left to mourn his departure three grandchildren, viz., Charles Paul Fuller of Dale, Indiana; Mrs. Mary Fuller Day of Indianapolis, Indiana; Miss Jean Fuller, student at Depauw University; and their mother, Mrs. Bertha Fuller of Chrisney, Indiana, who may join with hosts of friends in the sentiment of another poet who once said of another great man: “The elements were so mixed up in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, 'This was

FORMER DALE DOCTOR DIES AT AGE OF 79 YEARS

JOHN WESLEY GOTH DIES IN HUNTINGBURG HOSPITAL

P. W. Fuller, who had been in ill health for several months and who had recently submitted to a major operation at the Deaconess hospital in Evansville, passed away at the hospital Monday night at the age of 78 years.

Dr. Joseph Warrick Clifford, 79, native of Oakland City, believed to have delivered more babies than any other doctor in the state, died at 3:50 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis.

John Wesley Guth, 61, died at 6 o’clock last Saturday morning at the Stork hospital in Huntingburg, after a long illness. Surviving are two brothers, Albert of Cleveland, Ohio, and Edward of Los Angeles, Calif.; and two sisters, Misses Tillie and Dena Guth of Dale. Funeral services were held at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon at the home and at 3:30 o’clock at the Santa Claus Camp Ground Methodist Church, with Rev. Barthol Rogers of Dale, assisted by Rev. Millard Brittingham of the Santa Claus Church and Rev. I. H. F. Ackerman of Holland, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

At the time of his death his home was at Worthington, Ind., where he had practiced medicine since 1903.

Following is a contributed obituary, that was read at his funeral services:

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us—our

While he kept no complete record of the number of cases he had attended, he frequently said the number of babies he had delivered was between 1,500 and 2,000. In 1939 a picnic in his honor was attended by persons at whose birth he had been the physician. One of the largest crowds in Worthington’s history assembled. In numerous instances he had been in attendance at births in two generations in the same family. Dr. Clifford worked his way through the Electic School of Medicine and Surgery at Atlanta, Ga., and was licensed to practice here in Dale in 1897. He later went to Holland, and from Holland to Worthington. Prior to his graduation from medical school he was a teacher at Glezen, Ind. Surviving are his wife, Louise, whom he married at Oakland City in 1887; a son, Floyd, assistant city engineer at Loraine, Ohio; and a daughter, Mrs. Asa Love, supervisor of music in Kendalville schools; two grandchildren; a brother Charles; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Blythe of Oakland City; and a half-sister Mrs. Ella Austin of Burns, Kansas.

life’s star, Have had elsewhere its setting Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakednes But trailing clouds of glory, Do we come from God Who is our Home.

UNION HOLY WEEK SERVICES

The poet, Wordsworth, when he penned these lines might well have had in mind Paul W. Fuller who was born December 23, 1863 at Gentryville, Indiana, the son of William S. Fuller and Mary Thompson Fuller. Anyone who knew Mr. Fuller and saw life from childhood develop into early manhood and reach maturity and even old age must have had the feeling that Mr. Fuller’s endowments at his birth gave promise of what the poet said in the last few lines just read. “Not in entire forgetfulnes” did Mr. Fuller live. He never forgot his obligations to the members of his family—devoted through a long life to his companion, Isabelle R. Fuller, whom he married on April 8, 1885 and who preceded him in death on September 20, 1940; he never once forgot to bestow upon her that tender care which characterized his attitude toward all those who found themselves within the circle of his friendship. Nor did he forget his Creator and the living members of his family when death removed his only child, a son, almost ten years ago. Nor did he forget his obligations to his community which he served so faithfully both as a private citizen and as an elected or an appointed official. His service to the Town as a member of its Board of Trustees

There will be Union Holy Week, services, beginning Wednesday night at the U. B. Church, with “Howdy” Ellis” chalk artist drawing a picture of “The Compassion.” On Thursday night Rev. O. A. Beanblossom will have charge of a communion service, at the Methodist church, the audience receiving the communion in like manner as Christ and His disciples received it. On Friday afternoon, from 2 to 3 p. m., there will be a Good Friday service, at the Presbyterian church, with Rev. B. P. Rogers in charge. Easter Sunday will climax these services, with a sunrise prayer service in each church at 6 a. m., Sunday School and Easter sermons in all churches. Make it your duty to attend these services.

Dr. Clifford was well-known to nany of Dale’s older people. He visited here recently with the C. W. Wedeking family and others.

Some of the pipe for the Dale water system has arrived, and we understand that work will begin on it about April 1.

REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!

a man’.”

Mrs. T. W. Stone is confined to her home from a recent fall suffered at her home the first of the week.

Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon at the Dale Methodist church, with the pastor Rev. Barthol Rogers, in charge, assisted by Rev. W. A. Skelton, of

Eugene Dellar of Camp Shelby, Miss., is enjoying a furlough of ten days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dellar.

Owensville, Ind., and Rev. R. J. Skelton of New Harmony, Ind. Burial was in the Dale cemetery