70 Years Ago: 1944

Dr. and Mrs. J.A.K. Birchett are vacationing in Chicago.

60 Years Ago: 1954

Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gene Scarborough announce the birth of a daughter, Jannis.

50 Years Ago: 1964

George Kelly, ex-Warren County supervisor, dies. • S.I. Sheffield dies at Thompson Lake while on a fishing trip.

40 Years Ago: 1974

Mrs. Simor Sartorius spends the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Steven Katz of Nashville.

30 Years Ago: 1984

Karie Anne Rouse is selected as a finalist in the 1984 Miss Mississippi National Pre-Teen Pageant. • Thomas Martin Hogan is 4 today and Lurline Marie Lawrence celebrates her first birthday.

20 Years Ago: 1994

The brother of former Police Chief Charles Davenport will pursue the suit filed against Vicksburg after the cheif was not reappointed by the new administration. Davenport died in October.

10 Years Ago: 2004

Joseph Canizaro Jewelers, a Washington Street fixture under the names of Strauss-Stallings Jewelers and Canizaro Jewelers for 57 years, will be liquidating its inventory soon.