Hemingray Glass Company, Muncie, Indiana

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Muncie's Manufactories Not Affected

by the Summer Dullness.

News Notes and Items of Interest

Picked Up and Put into Paragraphs

for The Times Readers.

At the Architectural iron works new orders are coming in all the time and the plant is being worked to its fullest capacity.

Hemingrays are repairing their furnaces and making various improvements in the factory preparatory to next season's business.

E. B. Ball, one of the proprietors of the Ball Bros. glass works, left yesterday on a trip to Europe. He will be absent about six weeks.

At Maring, Hart & Co.'s glass works a force of men are engaged in repairing the furnaces and getting the plant in shape for next season's business.

Ball's washing machine factory is enjoying a good business, and the products of the factory are being shipped to various sections of the country daily.

Ball Bros. are putting up two new factory buildings in addition to their extensive glass plant. They are building an addition to the blowers' department that will be almost as large as the original building, and a new building for their presses.

Castator & Nelson is the name of a new firm that has recently gone into the manufacturing business. They have established a planing mill near A. L. Johnson's saw mill, where they are now employing ten men, and turning out a fine lot of work.

At the Muncie, Port, and Over glass factories they are getting the plants and shops in shape for next season's work, and in some of them the capacity is being increased, and next season promises a larger business the glass factories than during any previous year since the location of the factories in the city.

Muncie's manufacturing establishments are all running full time and some of them over time, except the glass factories which are closed down the country over for the summer vacation. Every factory in the city is prosperous and doing a good business. The thousands of artisans and laborers employed in the big industrial institutions find work the year around, and no man who has a disposition to work need go long unemployed in Muncie.

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