Old Postal Files: July 26, 1924-2014 – The Vicksburg Post

Old Post Files is a regular feature in the pages of the print edition and digital e-edition of The Vicksburg Post. This feature looks back at some of the events that have occurred in the pages of The Vicksburg Post over the past 100 years. Enjoy.

100 years ago: 1924

Amelia Bazinsky left for New York. • Landman Teller left to spend a month at Sylvan Beach. • Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Turcott and their sons returned from a visit to Lake, Miss.

90 years ago: 1934

Mrs. Alberta Butts returned from Poplarville, where she had been visiting relatives. • Wilson Carroll purchased the Flowers Brothers Insurance Agency. • Julie McKenzie died.

80 years ago: 1944

• Senator Theodore Bilbo underwent surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. • Lt. Maury Yerger Jr. visited his parents. • Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Swayze, of Yazoo City, announced the birth of their son, Lawrence.

70 years ago: 1954

Services were held for Mr. William M. Cook. • Mrs. Joe Harz III and her sons visited Memphis. • Governor Hugh White visited Vicksburg.

60 years ago: 1964

Robert Holmes, of Bovina, was named director of the Goldwater for President campaign in Warren County. • Herman Braun died. • Elizabeth Anderson visited relatives in St. Louis and Denver.

50 years ago: 1974

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ray Green announced the birth of their son, Kevin Daniel. • David West, a former Warren County resident, died in Memphis. • Michael Allen Gray and Karl Gregg Johnson attended the Cooperative Education Program at Mississippi State University.

40 years ago: 1984

Warren County received $436,150 from the Economic Development Administration; the funds were to be used by Eagle Lake farmer and developer Larry Crowe. • The youth choir of Bowmar Avenue Baptist Church presented the musical “Sing Your Praise to the Lord.” • Utica native Elizabeth Green was promoted to area supervisor by the Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services.

30 years ago: 1994

Kristen Chapman of the Vicksburg Chemical Cannon Girls 80 Soccer Team was selected to the US Youth Soccer Association Region III Under-15 Girls’ Olympic Development Program team.

20 years ago: 2004

Warren County appealed the state’s approval of a landfill plan in Yokena, and a special judge was appointed to hear the case.

10 years ago: 2014

The Warren County sheriff demanded a raise for his deputy. • A Vicksburg man, Michael Anthony Montgomery, was caught with $1 million worth of fake LSD. • WCHS student Jack Richardson left to begin his year-long exchange program in Germany.