[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Morning News
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 21, no. 170, p. 2, col. 2
INDUSTRIAL NEWS
Kitselman Bros. Will
Commence Buildings Monday.
Will be Four in Number and All of
Brick — Muncie Factory Pay
Rolls Big Yesterday.
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Under date of November 8, a Muncie correspondent to a Pittsburg paper says:
All the flint and green factories here are running steady at present. The green glass jar pressers went on piece work Monday......John Rock has left Ball Bros. John didn't think well of the machines......Albert Isriel, of Summitville, has accepted a pressing job at Hemingray’s......Kit Carson, late of Ball Bros., is pressing at Hemingray's......Bobby McCaffrey, of Toledo, Ohio, has accepted a job at Balls,......It is said that Balls will start their fifth tank soon. This will be running 90 press shops on the new machine-made jar. The shops make on an average of about 3000 each for a day's work. This includes pints, quarts and half gallons, making a total of 270,000 jars per day, and it isn't a very good fruit year, either......the A. F. G. W. U. are appointing their committees for the coming convention to be held here. They will endeavor to make this one of the greatest conventions in the history of the flints......The Trades Council is making a hard fight against Mark Tharp, the butcher, for handling unfair meats......George Taylor (Shiner No. 2) a gatherer at the tank at Hemingray's is going into the skate business.
