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Published 5:54 pm Friday, November 29, 2024 By Staff Reports 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: 1924 D.E. Welsh of New Orleans and Mrs.
Helen Smith were married. • The Baptist Church congregation adopted resolutions on the death of Hardy Jones. 90 YEARS AGO: 1934 The Arkansas Hill Billies appeared at the Saenger Theatre.
• U.S. Pump Barge No.
1 sprung a leak at Race Track Chute and sank. 80 YEARS AGO: 1944 R.B.
Alexander was a patient at Mercy Hospital. 70 YEARS AGO: 1954 Jock Mahoney starred in “Overland Pacific” at the Joy Theater. 60 YEARS AGO: 1964 Andy Bourgeois, head coach and athletic director at St.
Aloysius High School, resigned his position and would become head football coach at a New Orleans high school. 50 YEARS AGO: 1974 Mrs. Bety Gragg, elementary art supervisor for Warren County schools, became a new member of the local chapter of the American Business Women’s Association.
40 YEARS AGO: 1984 The Warren Central Vikings boys’ basketball team edged Clinton 47-45 in the second round of the WC Classic, setting off a celebration. 30 YEARS AGO: 1994 Bessie Durman, a resident at Vicksburg Convalescent Home, celebrated her 102nd birthday. 20 YEARS AGO: 2004 A reprimand, instead of a suspension, went into the record of a police supervisor city officials said showed favoritism to an officer they later fired.
10 YEARS AGO: 2014 St. Aloysius defeated Coffeeville on the football field to advance to the state championship game..
