In 1906, Alabama native Dillard Monroe Worthy opened a general merchandise store at this location, later joined by his son Roy as D.M. Worthy & Son. The business supplied residents with essential goods and also included farming materials, butcher and blacksmith shops, funeral supplies, and lumber. D.M. Worthy also served as the first president of Guaranty State Bank, later Donie State Bank, opened other businesses, and helped bring a spur track of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway near Donie. The store closed soon after his death in 1930, reopened under Roy in 1939 after Roy's earlier partnership in the business, and remained in operation for several more years after Roy died in 1956 before it burned.