Old Post Files is a regular feature within the pages of The Vicksburg Post’s print edition and digital e-edition. This feature looks back at some of the happenings from the pages of The Vicksburg Post over the past 100 years. Enjoy.

100 Years Ago: 1924

Teresa Murphy and Mildred Murphy departed from Brown’s Well. • W.D. Quinn, manager of Farley’s, was seriously ill at the Infirmary. • Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Canizaro and relatives left by auto for Hot Springs, Ark.

90 Years Ago: 1934

Laura Collier and James Buchanan Jr. were married in Alexandra, Va. • A.D. Lum was visiting relatives in Natchez. • Col. M.J. Mulvihill Sr., of the 155th Infantry, Mississippi National Guard, left for Camp Beauregard, La.

80 Years Ago: 1944

Mr. and Mrs. C.T. Carley and their sons returned from a vacation in Gulfport. • Sara Ethell, of Birmingham, Ala., was visiting Lydia Faulk. • R.E. Selby was a patient at Mercy Hospital.

70 Years Ago: 1954

The Rev. E.G. Boyce, of Port Gibson, was the guest minister at the First Presbyterian Church. • Johnnie Mae Johnson was visiting relatives in San Francisco. • Ruth Erves, a former Warren County resident, was visiting Vicksburg from Detroit.

60 Years Ago: 1964

Dan Anderson passed away. • Helen Cecila Melsheimer and John Robert Gordon were married. • Aurelia Curaan was vacationing in New York and other points.

50 Years Ago: 1974

Keith Wright was named the 1974 recipient of the coveted Bill Stewart Memorial Award. • Airman First Class Wadell S. Turner Jr. graduated from Keelser AFB’s Air Training Command’s Course for Electronic Specialists. • Mrs. Albert M. Bonelli returned after a cruise in the Caribbean Sea.

40 Years Ago: 1984

A beer company based in St, Louis supplied 22,000 unmarked cans of drinking water for the residents of Edwards while they awaited the restoration of their water line. • Mary B. Walker, Nathan Clark and Louis Hall Sr., history teachers in Vicksburg, attended the American Studies Seminar at Mississippi College. • Melvin Galenski Guice enlisted in the U.S. Air Force.

30 Years Ago: 1994

Jack L. Fillebaum, 70, died after being trapped under his tractor while bush hogging.

20 Years Ago: 2004

A Vicksburg man was in jail after being accused of two burglaries.

10 Years Ago: 2014

GPS tracking of city vehicles saved the city almost $100,000. • Electronic payments were needed in justice court, said County Administrator John Smith. • The Strand Theatre got new air conditioning.