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

Dr. H.W. Penn headed Peria Grotto. • McCabe and Thigpen were named attorneys for the local credit bureau. • W.R. Lominick was reappointed county agent by the Board of Supervisors.

90 YEARS AGO: 1934

Mrs. T.B. Grafton spoke before the Yowoca Club. • Wilma Sowers was visiting Winnsboro, Louisiana.

80 YEARS AGO: 1944

Lt. Ralph Jacobs with the U.S. Navy Air Force was in Vicksburg visiting relatives. • The Carr Central Greenies lost to Clarksdale by a final score of 40-14. 

70 YEARS AGO: 1954

Services were held for Mrs. H.C. Gray. • Lucy Armstrong was visiting Oxford. • Ernestine Ferrell, supervisor of public school music, presented the Carr Central Girls Sextet at the meeting of the Lions Club. 

60 YEARS AGO: 1964

Audie Murphy starred in “Bullet for a Badman” at the Joy Theater. • Dovie Moore died.

50 YEARS AGO: 1974

Mrs. Edward R. Partridge won the grand prize, a luxury cruise for two, in First National Bank of Vicksburg’s 90th anniversary celebration.

40 YEARS AGO: 1984

A thunderstorm left extensive damage, including power outages, a fallen tree on Walnut Hills restaurant, and a large oak tree down in the back yard of Herbert White on Enchanted Drive. 

30 YEARS AGO: 1994

Park View Regional Medical Center, The Street Clinic and Family Medicine Clinic announced a merger to become Park View Medical Crop., while retaining their individual names and locations. 

20 YEARS AGO: 2004

More than 3,000 students from around Mississippi were in Vicksburg when 26 marching bands visited for the Mississippi Marching Band Competition at Vicksburg High School. 

10 YEARS AGO: 2014

Vicksburg police and firefighters responded to the scene of an 18-wheeler on fire in the westbound lane of Interstate 20 between U.S. 61 North and Clay Street.