Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1917 — Thursday and Sunday Designated As Lightless Nights [ARTICLE]

Thursday and Sunday Designated As Lightless Nights

The “lightless night" has arrived. The Federal Fuel Administrator for Indiana, i« sending to- each •county fuel administrator a copy of the' order recently issued by the Washington office, which provides for two “lightless nights” each week, Sunday and Thursday. On these two nights electric signs, ornamental street lights, in fact, all electric lights except those essential to safety, must be turned, off. The order is now in effect and, its enforcement is in the hands of the county fuel administrators. The order has for its aim the conservation of coal and the Federal Fuel Administrator has the power to refuse coal to any concern, which uses it to generate electricity for signs and ornamental lighting if they fail to comply with the order. Display lights in stores and theatres come under the order and, excepting those lights necessary for the protection of property and the public, fnust be turned off on Sunday and Thursday nights.