Muncie, IND.; News of Local 23, Another tank will start November 3; John Butler will be three score and 10 on March 17, only living charter member of LU23

MUNCIE, IND.

By Paul Miller.

Here goes again with a few lines from the Magic City, as Muncie is best known to most of the trade, especially the old-timers, that remember it as the glass town it used to be, about twenty years ago.

The Hemingray plant is going along nicely and everyone getting full time.

We will have another tank to start here November 3rd, and we will probably need a few gatherers.

Brother Allen Jennens, a member of Local Union No. 23, visited here the past month. Al is looking fine and his old friends were glad to see him. Al has a good clerical position with the steel company at Middletown, Ohio.

That old veteran gaffer, John Butler, was here the past week. Butler can't give up old Muncie and as he says he will be three score and ten the 17th of next March, he will come back to stay. John is the only living charter member of Local Union No. 23. Our local was instituted in 1880.

The improvements at the factory under way the past few months are taking shape, and with all the modern appliances being installed we are going to have an up-to-date factory and a good place to work.

I suppose all our locals took out Liberty Bonds. We have no slackers here, every member took out one or more bonds, and we certainly commend the National Officers in purchasing $50,000 worth, making a total of $127,500 of our funds in Liberty and Victoria Bonds. No one questions the patriotism of the flints.

Our local has a committee whose duty it is to keep in touch with the members in the service, and we donate 25 per cent of our dues each month to this committee, who in turn uses same for the comfort of our soldiers, by sending them stamps, tobacco, reading matter, etc.

It is my sad duty to report the death of the mother of Brother William Jenkins, one of our mould makers. Mrs. Jenkins died at Alton, Ill. The body was brought to Muncie and interment was held in the Beech Grove cemetery. Six sons and one daughter survive. The members of Local Union No. 23 and friends extend their sincere sympathy to the bereaved ones.