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

Alice O’Brien left for Cooper’s Well. • Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Rayner and their baby returned from the Gulf Coast. • E. Lee Rand and John Ryan left for D.C. and New York.

90 Years Ago: 1934

Father H.W. Rockwood arrived in Vicksburg and visited with his family. • Isa Feith was visiting her daughter in Birmingham. • The banking rooms of the First National Bank and Trust Company were being redecorated.

80 Years Ago: 1944

Mrs. T.W. McCoy left for Greenville and Grenada. • Anna Knox assumed the duties as secretary of the First Baptist Church. • Brother William was named principal at St Aloysius High School.

70 Years Ago: 1954

Mrs. Ruby Short and Mrs. Jack Ogle were vacationing in New Mexico. • Frank Barber was a patient at the Vicksburg Hospital. • The Rev. and Mrs. Warwick Aiken returned from a vacation in North Carolina.

60 Years Ago: 1964

The 13th Hydraulics Division Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers opened in Vicksburg. • Services were held for Merion Smith, of Utica. • Services were held for Mrs. Lane Busick.

50 Years Ago: 1974

Mrs. T.A. Jamison and Mrs. F.H. Nolte returned from a three-week tour of the West Coast. • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shiers became the parents of a son, John Palmer. • The Clair Smith family left on their self-built trimaran to sail around the world.

40 Years Ago: 1984

A fatal accident brought about the first arrest and charge under the new drunk driving statute. • Chip Bryant was featured in The Post while working at the “Small World” daycare center with his mother and her co-worker. • Adam Joshua Cook celebrated his second birthday. 

30 Years Ago: 1994

Carolyn “Betty” Fowler, who taught at Grove Street Elementary, was nominated as the Vicksburg Warren School District’s representative for the Mississippi Teacher of the Year.

20 Years Ago: 2004

Attorneys representing a former Sharkey County judge accused of witness intimidation were withdrawing the motion that sought bond on those charges.

10 Years Ago: 2014

Tatum was out and Tate was in as E-911 director. • Vicksburg predicted changes in the cemetery ordinances. • Michael Ware was set to become the anchor of the WC Vikings’ defense.