The Register-Leader, July 16, 1920
After a silence of several years the hills surrounding the city are again to reverberate at 9 o'clock each evening the sounds of the city curfew, for following action taken by council Thursday evening at their regular meeting, the safety director will get the old whistle used for several years to warn small boys and girls from the streets at an early hour, in shape for further service.
Councilman Lorentz started the discussion which brought action. He asked if there weren't a curfew ordinance in existence. "If there is," he said, "I would like to see it enforced."
Mr. Lorentz was informed by the city solicitor that there is such an ordinance. Nearly all of the councilmen seemed in favor of the blowing of the curfew.
The curfew was done away with before, said one councilman, because it kept the people in Williamstown awake. Another councilman told the story of a West Side family. Every evening, just as they got the baby to sleep, the whistle blew, woke him up and it took another two hours to quiet him again. The man of the house thought that the whistle was sounded by a steamboat and was about to make a complaint.
Safety Director Bedillion told council that he would have the big whistle working again in short order.
The blowing of the curfew was stopped some years back because it was said sentiment seemed to be against it and because of the difficulty experienced in enforcing the ordinance.
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