Jane Shepherd had lived in her Portland home for about 10 years but it wasn’t until she starting packing to move that she found a newspapers tucked away under floor joists in the attic. The unusual part — it was a copy of the Beeville Bee-Picayune from Oct. 16, 1958.

“The house was built in the mid to late ‘60s and these papers are from ‘58,” said Shepherd, who now lives in Skidmore.

Shepherd doesn’t know how or why the newspaper was tucked away as the previous owners didn’t have a Beeville connection that she knew of.

It was three years ago that Shepherd had packed up her belonging to move to Beeville, and found the tattered newspaper, separated into two thick bundles.

She packed them up with her belongings and forgot about them until this week when she began moving back to her hometown of Skidmore.

“I have no idea what is in them,” she said Monday, avoiding moving the fragile, yellowed newspapers.

“I was so tempted to look but they are so fragile I was afraid to.”

She brought them up to the Bee-Picayune offices where the bundles were carefully pried apart.

The newspapers are from the 100 year anniversary edition of Bee County which was a massive 88 pages in 11 sections, according to its cover.

She left the newspaper in care of the Bee-Picayune.