Old Post Files • 12 30 2013
Published 11:00 am Monday, December 30, 2013
130 YEARS AGO: 1883
The condition of C.J. Edwards fails to improve. • Mr. and Mrs. C. Ehrman are visiting in Greenville.
120 YEARS AGO: 1893
The steamer A.L. Mason strikes a snag below Helena, Ark., and sinks. • The St. Joseph is due in from Natchez.
110 YEARS AGO: 1903
Leroy Percy is here from Greenville. • W.H. Bruser is putting up a smokestack 84 feet high at the water plant.
100 YEARS AGO: 1913
Mrs. Harry Sears and children are home from Benoit. • Lamar Johnston and Ernest Joy star in “The Prisoner of the Mountains,” at the Alamo Theater.
90 YEARS AGO: 1923
Sheriff Frank Scott, assuming office, names his list of deputies. • Pat Henry Jr. is named attorney for the supervisors.
80 YEARS AGO: 1933
Mayor J.C. Hamilton heads the Roosevelt birthday ball committee. • The Rev. C.P. Colmery of Edwards celebrates his 75th birthday.
70 YEARS AGO: 1943
Corp. Bill Floyd of the Army Air Corps is home on furlough. • F.C. Wilicoxon of the YMCA is ill with a severe cold.
60 YEARS AGO: 1953
Services are held for W.S. Hyman. • C.P. Harwood dies.
50 YEARS AGO: 1963
Joseph Rusche dies. • J.P. White is elected president of the United Fund for 1964.
40 YEARS AGO: 1973
Mrs. Delbert Hoseman and Mrs. J. Stanford Terry are models at a Country Club luncheon for the March of Dimes.
30 YEARS AGO: 1983
• Port Gibson resident Robert Greenlee, 19, is killed in a car accident. • Services are held for Mrs. Curle B. Curry of Kings.
20 YEARS AGO: 1993
District 1 Supervisor Petesy Smith moves her office, citing problems with air quality at the office at 913 Jackson St.
10 YEARS AGO: 2003
Vicksburg’s thrift stores experience a boom in donations following New Year’s celebrations. • Vehicle stereos, instruments, and more than $1,000 were missing following three burglaries over the weekend.