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branch there for ten years. Later he joined his brother, J. W. Welch, 

 ill the Welsh Brothers Lumber Company. 



He was born in Genesee, N. Y., 45 years ago. For some years he 

 liad suffered with heart trouble. He made several trips during the 

 months preceding his death in the hope of improving his condition. 

 Little more than a month ago he returned from Battle Creek and 

 liis family thought he was much improved until he was taken vio- 

 lently ill some days ago. 



Mr. Welsh was prominently identified with the lumber industry 

 here. He was a member of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis and 

 took an active part in its affairs. He is survived by his widow, 

 Mrs. Nina Daley Welsh, and by three brothers: J. W., M. H. and 

 B. J. Welsh. 



Sullivan Files Demurrer to U. S. Fraud Charges 



Frank T. Sullivan, lumber dealer of Buffalo, N. Y.. indicted with Ernest C. 

 Morse and eight others by the special war fraud grand jury in what is 

 known as the Phillips lumber case, involving approximately $1,800,000, 

 withdrew his plea of not guilty, entered some time ago, and filed a 

 demurrer on September 19 to quash the indictment, pleading the statute 

 of limitation as a bar to prosecution. 



Contention by special prosecuting attorneys for the Department of Jus- 

 tice will be that the statute on an offense cannot run until discovery is 

 made that an offense has been committed. No date has been set for a 

 bearing on the demurrer. 



The charge against Sullivan and the other was conspiracy, and grows 

 out of alleged loss to the government in the sale of surplus hardwood lum- 

 ber by the War Department, millions of feet of hardwood, it being 

 claimed, were sold at less than softwood prices. 



Clubs and Associations 



Evansville Club Holds Fall Meeting 



The first fall meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club at Evansville, 

 Ind., was held on Tuesday night, September 12, at the New Vendome hotel, 

 and there was a large attendance. In the absence of J. C. Greer of the 

 J. C. Greer Lumber Company, the president, Joe A. Waltman of the Evans- 

 ville Band Mill Company, presided. Several visitors were present. 



William S. Partington, secretary and treasurer of the club, read a letter 

 from the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, asking him to send 

 them the names of all retailers in the southern Indiana territory who use 

 letterheads indicating that they operate sawmills when in fact they do not. 

 This information will be turned over to the federal trades commission. 

 The club unanimously voted to furnish the information, as the members 

 felt it would be a step to prevent fraud and misrepresentation in trade. 

 A vote of thanks was extended to the entertainment committee, of which 

 lius E. Bauman of the G. E. Bauman Hardwood Company is chairman, for 

 tlie successful summer outing that was given on the steamer Verne Swain 

 on the Ohio river last June. It was the most successful outing the club 

 has ever held. 



Secretary Partington reported that the embargo situation on logs on the 

 railroads of the southern states is getting some better. Daniel Wertz of 

 the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, who is the chairman of the co-opera- 

 tive committee of the club, made a most interesting talk on trade condi- 

 tions. He said that the settlement of the miners' strike and the virtual 

 settlement of the railroad shopmen's strike will have a good effect upon 

 the business world in the western states as well as in the whole country. 

 He said there was a lot of building going on in the territory around Evans- 

 ville and this in spite of the car shortage. He reported a scarcity of 

 skilled workmen in many industries. Mr. Wertz said that the Evansville 

 furniture factories have less lumber on hand now than they had a year 

 ago, but in spite of this fact he did not look for them to buy in unusually 

 big quantities, but probably to continue to buy cautiously for some time 

 to come. 



Hardwood Day at New Orleans Club 



September 19 was "Hardwood day" at the regular weekly luncheon of 

 the New Orleans Lumbermen's Club, with John M. Pritchard, secretary 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, Chicago ; F. K. Conn, Yazoo 

 City. Miss., chairman of the membership committee, and other leading 

 hardwood men in attendance, including C. H. Sherrlll of New Orleans, who 

 is president of the club, as well as the Institute. 



The feature of the luncheon was a brief, pointed address by Secretary 

 Pritchard, outlining both the "don'ts" and the "dos" for which the new 

 Institute stands, and pointing out graphically a number of the more 

 important problems with which it is confronted and which it hopes to 

 solve and settle. 



