Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana

Newsy Muncie Notes.

MUNCIE, IND., Jan. 15. - The glass business in this section of the gas belt is not as flourishing as it might be, yet all the factories excepting Ball Bros. are moving along smoothly, with bright prospects for the spring trade.

The question of when Ball Bros. large fruit jar factory will start, so far as the men are concerned, is yet undecided, and many of the men are leaving for other parts of the country, and but few are left to tell the tale of the prosperous days at Ball Bros.

Ned Hopkins recently departed for Marion, to work at the Evans chimney factory. - John Deaken is a late addition to the flint house at Hemingray's. - Tom Herron is manipulating the iron rod at Hemingray's. - We were glad to see the smiling countenance of T. J. McElherron while on our rounds.

Three shops started on Globe fruit jars at Hemingray's Monday. - We were surprised to find Barney Grant making insulators in the flint house. Barney says lamp orders cannot be very plentiful. - Thomas Murray, who recently had the misfortune to lose a part of the middle finger on his right hand, has returned to work, and handles the pipe as though nothing ever happened.

The new continuous tank has been completed, and it is reported that fire will soon be put in. There will be but two shops put on to start with.

L. U. 91 donated $25 to the Workingmen's Library. If some more of the labor organizations would respond as did L. U. 91 the library would be placed on a solid foundation. - BRUDY.