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

Frank Kearns was ill at the Infirmary. • Dr. R.P. Crumpp, of Nita Yuma, was visiting Vicksburg. • John Hude went to Jackson by auto. 

90 YEARS AGO: 1934

Col. L.G. Heider left for D.C. on Vicksburg National Military Park business. • Mrs. Mary Estelle-Partee Luckett died. 

80 YEARS AGO: 1944

Dr. Howard C. Sevier, of Tallulah, died.

70 YEARS AGO: 1954

Mrs. John R. Wallace was in Vicksburg from Memphis visiting Mrs. Fred Young. 

60 YEARS AGO: 1964

Mariam Jacobson and Lee Emerson were married. 

50 YEARS AGO: 1974

Robin Reynolds was crowned homecoming queen at St. Aloysius High School. 

40 YEARS AGO: 1984

Heather Lesha Hughes and Nathaniel Allen Hoben celebrated birthdays. 

30 YEARS AGO: 1994

A break in an ammonia line serving the old air-conditioning system in the Vicksburg Police Department forced around 20 employees from their offices for more than an hour. 

20 YEARS AGO: 2004

The Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to enter into a deal allowing the city to install approximately 23 5×2 ½-foot banners.

10 YEARS AGO: 2014

Warren Central fell to Clinton by a final score of 14-13 after the Vikings missed an extra-point attempt in a heartbreaker on the gridiron.