This mail rider delivers "a dollar's worth of furnish every Saturday morning" to Grover Cleveland Winbush's mother - that is, a dollar's worth of food staples (176). (Working for the Rural Free Delivery program, mail carriers distributed mail from central post offices in towns like Jefferson to the people who lived in the surrounding countryside.)
Judge Long is the federal judge of the district, and he has a reputation for handing down tough sentences for crimes of vice, like moonshining: "He was six and a half feet tall and his nose looked almost a sixth of that, leaning down across the Bench with his spectacles at the end of his nose" (177). Had it not been for Flem's stratagem, Montgomery Ward Snopes would have been prosecuted in Long's court for owning and distributing obscene postcards.
Charles naively - or perhaps coyly - describes the men from "the next towns" and elsewhere who visit Montgomery Ward's photographic studio at night this way: "going and coming through the side door in the alley; and them the kind of men you wouldn't hardly think it had ever occurred to them they might ever need to have their picture struck" (131).
When Sheriff Hampton slaps Montgomery Ward, Montgomery Ward threatens to sue the Sheriff's "bondsmen"; as readers learned during the controversy over the missing brass from the power plant, public officials in Yoknapatawpha were 'bonded,' or required to have insurance against complaints of malfeasance in office (172).
Whit Rouncewell attempts to find the town's night marshal Grover Cleveland Winbush after seeing "them two fellows in Christian's drug store" (169). He is probably a relative of Mrs. Rouncewell, perhaps her son; he is definitely a contemporary of Linda Snopes: later in the novel, he is one of Linda's adolescent admirers and escorts during her last year in high school (222).
Before the Civil War, Willy Christian's grandfather owned Walter's grandfather. The relationship between Willy and Walter has affinities with this master-slave relationship.
