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: 1925

Father’s Night was held at Carr Junior High School. 

90 YEARS AGO: 1935

Gubernatorial candidate Hugh White visits Vicksburg. 

80 YEARS AGO: 1945

Rabbi Stanley Brav was ill with the flu at his home. 

70 YEARS AGO: 1955

Lt. Jack Stamm Jr. arrived from Korea to visit his parents in Warren County. 

60 YEARS AGO: 1965

William A. Worthmann was speaker at the annual meeting of the Junius Ward Johnson Memorial YMCA.

50 YEARS AGO: 1975

J.E. Blackburn was the speaker at the Port City Kiwanis Club meeting. 

40 YEARS AGO: 1985

Robert C. Palermo died. 

30 YEARS AGO: 1995

Jennifer White was named Miss Vicksburg.

20 YEARS AGO: 2005

John Shorter was the first candidate to qualify for election in the race for mayor of Vicksburg. 

10 YEARS AGO: 2015

The Vicksburg-Warren County Chamber of Commerce outgoing president Don Brown passed the gavel to incoming president Tom Kendall, president of Trustmark Bank.