DailyTrib.com Support Community Press You can show your support of a vibrant and healthy free press by becoming a voluntary subscriber. Subscribe Now A.B. McGill & Co. General Mercantile in Bertram closed its doors in 1993. An antique store operated out of the space until 1997. McGill’s is believed to be the longest-operating mercantile in Texas history. Courtesy photo
More than 116 years of history crumbled to the ground March 22 when a 75-mph straight-line wind laid waste to the building that once housed A.B. McGill & Company General Merchants in Bertram.
Although the building has been empty since 1997, it filled the hearts of many longtime locals with fond memories of buying wedding china, church shoes, party dresses, washing machines, groceries, and caskets in the place where they also banked.
State health officials still urging use of masks as mandate lifts in Mississippi
Mississippi to end mask mandate at 5 p.m. Wednesday By Janice Broach | March 2, 2021 at 10:39 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 10:47 PM
DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. (WMC) - Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves issued an executive order axing mask-wearing. The governor may have signed an executive order to lift the mask mandate but he is still encouraging people to wear a mask to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Some people in Desoto County wonder if it means they may now be more exposed.
Jada Reed believes wearing a mask is important and she wants people around her to do the same.