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 last 100 years. Enjoy.

100 Years Ago: 1924

H.L. Geary and N.J. Hall invented a jack for loading and unloading automobiles. • The B.H. Turcott family was ill. • Elizabeth Todd departed for Sulphur Springs, Ark., where she was to teach home economics at John Brown University. 

90 Years Ago: 1934

Porter Jared resigned as secretary of the YMCA Men’s Club. • Hazel Tennett, director, was put in charge of the Mint Springs Recreational Group. • Woodrow Ellis was presented with his Eagle Scout Badge during a Court of Honor.

80 Years Ago: 1944

E.H. Puryear, with the U.S. Navy, was in Vicksburg visiting family. • Pvt. Norman E. Bragg graduated from the Department of Armament at Lowry Field in Denver.

70 Years Ago: 1954

Services were held for Mrs. James E. Bradston. • Jessie Thomas died. • Lee Davis Thames began his freshman year at Ole Miss.

60 Years Ago: 1964

Mr. and Mrs. D.E. Gray announced the birth of their daughter, Gerri. • Linda Martin left for her freshman year at Vanderbilt. • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell announced the birth of their daughter, Rebecca. • Mr. and Mrs. Harl Harden announced the birth of their son, Robert.

50 Years Ago: 1974

Voters defeated a proposed bond issue concerning an industrial site near Blakely. • Laura Elaine Dent enrolled in St. Dominic School of Nursing. • Mr. and Mrs. Larry Rocconi announced the birth of their daughter, Courtney Elizabeth. • Winners of the Red Carpet Bowl Junior Golf Tournament were Mike Warnock, Douglas Warnock, Charles Eads and Jim Cooper. 

40 Years Ago: 1984

Alma T. Ryals died. • Efforts to stop erosion on Eagle Lake’s shoreline were pursued.  • United Way kicked off its 1984 Campaign.

30 Years Ago: 1994

Jonula Mechelle Cartwright was chosen Miss Senior at Alcorn State University.

20 Years Ago: 2004

Vicksburg native Rebekah Williams was working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

10 Years Ago: 2014

A group of deaf friends were paddling down the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca in Minnesota. • Tanner Gardner played Taps at the USS Cairo in memory of those lost during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.  • St. Al was rolling into regional play.