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GoogleAn electrical short in an overhead kitchen light switch touches off a fire in Jackson which causes extensive interior damage to the home of Robert Lanford, 860 Donna Dr.; no one is injured in the fire, which breaks out shortly after midnight.
Only a handful of Jackson merchants say they will open on Sundays, and those who plan to do so express resentment at the idea during the morning meeting of the Jackson Merchants Association; Sunday store openings throughout the county were legalized last week when voters repealed the Sunday Blue Law.
50 years ago: Nov. 14, 1959
Winter blasted a path through Southeast Missouri during the night on a rapidly dropping temperature that plunged the mercury from a high of 70 degrees at mid-afternoon yesterday to 28 degrees in mid-morning today.
Jerry Huckstep, 26, of Gordonville suffers first-, second-, and third-degree burns in an explosion and fire in the evening at the Brock Gulf Service Station on Highway 61, north; Huckstep is reportedly scrubbing the floor with a mixture of gasoline and water, when the gasoline and fumes ignite, causing and explosion and fire in the station.
75 years ago: Nov. 14, 1934
Revival of farm land sales, particularly in the district south of Cape Girardeau, has been evident in recent weeks; in the last 60 days the Himmelberger-Harrison Land Selling Co., without any particular sales effort, has disposed of eight tracts of land, all located in the west half of New Madrid County.
A crowd jams The Missourian office in the morning when tickets for "The Green Pastures" are placed on sale; in an hour, all of the balcony seats and half of the main floor seats in the State College auditorium, where the famous play will be presented next Wednesday night, are sold.
100 years ago: Nov. 14, 1909
The Rev. C.P. Browning resigns as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Jackson; he plans to move to Erie, Okla., where he has accepted a call of that congregation.
Grace Van Evera, the deaconess in charge of the Presbyterian Church Sunday School, conducts exercises in the afternoon in the old shoe factory building, corner of William and Henderson streets.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
