Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-24
CROSSLEYS ORDERS IN
EFFECT STARTING FRIDAY
WHAT FUEL ORDER
MEANS TO MEXICO

MEANS III mEAlNN
l The stores will close Saturday
If night at 7O'clOck instead Of keep
r. ing open until 10 or IL.
e, All restaurants must close at
10 O'Clock. unless they are con-
o Quoted all night and they must
r. have special permission.
e Picture show open only four
a nights a week. Closed Monday
It and Tuesday. Performance over
I. at 10 p. m. This alho applies TO
y dance halls.
o Mayor ]. F. Harrison, one of the
;. local fuel administrators, says the
. street lights will not be shut off
k here because the Power Company re-
quires the exhaust steam from their
5 power to heat the city with. He says
: that otherwise all places in the city
, coming under the orders of the State
Fuel Administration are expected to
comply with the rulings which went
into effect Friday morning.
Lights in stores that closed as well
as electric signs must be shut off.
The order of State Fuel Admins
!trator Wallace Crossley regarding
the conservation of fuel went into
effect Friday morning at o'clock, ac-
cording to dispatches from st. Louis.
1t was officially promulgated late
thursday from the office of the st.
Louis Fuel Committee. The full
text of the order follows;
"Owing to conditions arising out of
the present situation as regards lin
tied coal production and impaired
transportation, the Federal Fuel Ad-
ministrator of Missouri, by virtue of
Authority conferred upon i'm by the
appointment, hereby orders and di-
reefs as follows, effective at a. M,
January IS, 1918:
mo. - Deliveries of coal by re-
tail dealers, or others of whatsoever
business, for domestic consumption in |
residences, flats or other places Of
domestic habitation, including hotels,
apartment houses and rooming hous-
es, shall be restricted to reasonable |
necessary requirements.
Local fuel committees of the vari-
GUS counties and cities in the State Of
Missouri shall establish such rules and
regulations as the conditions and cir-
cumstances in each community war
rant.
No. 2 -- Deliveries Of ccal by retail
dealers, or any other individual, firm
or corporation, dealing in the retail
distribution Of coal, shall be given
preference in the following order;
"(a) Domestic consumers, hospit-
ais, charitable institutions, hotels,
apartment houses and restaurants.
"(b) Public utilities. telephone
and telegraph plants.
Food Plants Preferred
"(c) United States Government
bulldogs and industrial plants and
factories actually possessing contracts
or direct orders from the United
States Government for manufacture
or producing of munitions or other ar
ticles incident to the prosecution of
the war.
I'D Municipal, county or State
government buildings necessary for
public use.
te- Manufacturing plants produc-
ing perishable food or food necessary
for immediate consumption.
+No. 8 - All restaurants, with
the exception of such as may be spe-
cially permitted to remain open at
night for the benefit of night work.
ers; all saloons, theaters, motion pic
ture theaters, billiard and pool halls,
or any other places of amusement, in
cluding dance halls, shall close not
later than 10 p. m. each and every
night such places may be permitted |
to be open.
mo. - All motion picture thea
ters, dance halls, pool and billiard
hauus, bowling alleys and all other
places of amusement, except theaters
where out Of town companies present
performances, shall close Monday
and Tuesday nights of each week.
Signs Discontinued
mo. 5 - All signs of every kind,
including merchants signs, theater
signs, also display lighting on build
ings and elsewhere, hotel signs and
advertising signs, also lights under
canopies of hotels and theaters, ex-
cepting where one light not exceeding
l50-watt consumption are ordered dis
continued on each and every night of
each week until further notice.
"0n these same nights, stores not
open for business, must not show any
lights inside more than are necessary
for safety or cleaning purposes.
municipalities with clusters of
lights on streets, or at street inter-
sections or bright lighting for Nhite
way effect must reduce to only such
lightings as is absolutely necessary
for public safety. The spirit of this
section of the order is that until furth-
er notice there shall be no more out
door lighting than is absolutely nee
essary for the safety Of public pas
sage and dangerous spots.
UNITED States Government build
ings and factories possessing an or