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 

Indian relics were found on the place of Joe Ring in the county.

90 YEARS AGO: 1935

Mary Ellen Fields was married to William Robertson in Natchez. • Lucy Gale of Tallulah was visiting Mrs. Alan Booth. 

80 YEARS AGO: 1945

Francis Lambert Jr. of the U.S. Navy was home on leave. • Alonzo DeCell was elected president of the Carr Central High School Student Council. 

70 YEARS AGO: 1955

Retired insurance company executive C. Wilson died. • Mrs. D.B. Larr Jr. was a patient at Mercy Hospital. 

60 YEARS AGO: 1965

Mrs. Catherine Fantroy died. • Mrs. W.T. Ewell is elected president of the Warren County Home Demonstration Council. 

50 YEARS AGO: 1975

Tech. Sgt. William Keys, son of Reola Harrison of Tallulah is assigned to England. • Thomas Foster Sr. died. 

40 YEARS AGO: 1985

Ernest Glen Pace and Keith B. Megehee received National Merit Scholarships.

30 YEARS AGO: 1995

Mike Shingler opened a club catering to teens in Bovina. • Becky Tustain retired  from the associate degree nursing program at Hinds Community College.  

20 YEARS AGO: 2005

Kindergarten students Beth Fortner, Cade Walters and McKenzie Miles participated in a schoolwide circus at First Presbyterian Church Kindergarten and Daycare. 

10 YEARS AGO: 2015

Tyla Vega, 18, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing her mother with a hunting rifle in 2011.