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 

Services were held for Mrs. Rosa Metzger. • Joseph Short was ill at the sanitarium. 

90 YEARS AGO: 1935

Bernard A. Mulligan was killed by a train in Port Gibson. 

80 YEARS AGO: 1945

Vicksburg and the nation mourned the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

70 YEARS AGO: 1955

Mercer Hawkins died. • Mr. and Mrs. John Miller and daughter , of Jacksonville, Florida, were in Vicksburg visiting relatives.

60 YEARS AGO: 1965

Mrs. Cora Woods died. • Services were held for James Robinson.

50 YEARS AGO: 1975

Dave Hinkle died after a long illness. • Ida Bell Johnson died unexpectedly in her home. 

40 YEARS AGO: 1985

Warren Central’s Sheila Jenkins tossed the shot during the Coca-Cola-Merchants National Bank Relays.

30 YEARS AGO: 1995

Gasoline prices at Vicksburg pumps surged, with an average of 1.13 per gallon of regular unleaded seen at area stores.

20 YEARS AGO: 2005

A total of 14 teenagers were arrested after a fight at Warren Central High School.

10 YEARS AGO: 2015

Crystal’s Hip Hop Crew won first place and the People’s Choice award at the United Way’s fourth annual Dancing with the Vicksburg Stars.