Old Post Files

Published 11:00 am Friday, March 14, 2014

70 Years Ago: 1944

Mrs. George Worthy dies.

60 Years Ago: 1954

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Dr. Lucian Ferris is speaker at the Rotary Club in observance of National Heart Week.

50 Years Ago: 1964

Ernest Sherrill is elected president of the Warren County Christian Laymen’s Fellowship. • Miss Daisy Rawlings dies.

40 Years Ago: 1974

Mrs. Betty Guider Sergeant dies.

30 Years Ago: 1984

Total Sound of Warren Central High; the Vicksburg High School Jazz Band, the Dixie Showboat Players performing “Gold In The Hills,” and VIcksburg Community Singers of Edwards perform at the Mississippi Pavilion during the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans.

20 Years Ago: 1994

A new cross is lifted by elevator to the top of Church of the Holy Trinity’s 180-foot steeple and then placed on its new pedestal.

10 Years Ago: 2004

Police are searching for a Vicksburg man accused of stabbing his roommate.