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

Ethel Berry is here from Baton Rouge visiting friends.

90 YEARS AGO: 1935

Charles Amborn, proprietor of the Central Cafe, is ill.

80 YEARS AGO: 1945

Capt. Robert Q. Smith is awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement in action against the enemy in Germany.

70 YEARS AGO: 1955

Sam Battali dies. • Virginia Sanders receives a bachelor of arts degree from Duke University.

60 YEARS AGO: 1965

Midshipman Bob McGehee is on summer leave from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. • Mr. and Mrs. Othel Mendrop announce the birth of a son, Kelly.

50 YEARS AGO: 1975

Donald Jackson of Vicksburg is accepted into the state’s first dental student class at the University of Mississippi.

40 YEARS AGO: 1985

Alfred Lee Davis dies • State Rep. Ed Buelow receives the first of the Time, Leadership and Concern awards from the Mississippi Coalition of Mothers and Babies.

30 YEARS AGO: 1995

The American Red Cross opens a service center for victims of flooding at Cool Spring M.B. Church on Falk Steel Road.

20 YEARS AGO: 2005

Renovations began on the 175-year-old Shirley House in Vicksburg National Military Park.

10 YEARS AGO: 2015

Former Vicksburg High School football coach Alzono Stevens was accused of diverting funds from vending machines.