Minnie works for Miss Reba as a maid and also a kind of confidant. Either because Popeye pays her, or because she is afraid of him, she also looks after Temple during the time she spends in the brothel.
As Popeye and Temple drive along the street with Miss Reba's on it, they see on the "second storey gallery" of one of the "dingy" houses "a young negress in her underclothes" (142). Her undress and the location of the building suggest she is a prostitute, but that is not made definite.
As Popeye and Temple drive along the street with Miss Reba's on it, they see inside a diner "a fat man in a dirty apron with a toothpick in his mouth" (142).
As Popeye and Temple approach the town of Dumfries, they begin seeing other people on the road, though the narrative refers to them in a complex series of phrases. In some cases it cites the means of transportation rather than the people: "pleasure cars Sunday-bent," "Fords and Chevrolets," "now and then a wagon or a buggy" (139). The only occupants specifically mentioned are "swathed women" in the "occasional larger car" and "wooden-faced country people" in trucks (139).
After her child has a bad night in the hotel, Ruby says, "I finally got the doctor" (135). The doctor who appears in all three previous Yoknapatawpha novels is named Peabody, described as the fattest man in Yoknapatawpha County, but this doctor is someone else, "a young man with a small black bag" whom Horace obviously has never seen before (135).
Gowan's unnamed mother is mentioned in the narrative after he himself has fled from Yoknapatawpha and written Narcissa a letter that Jenny Du Pre makes fun of. She and Mrs. Stevens would have known each other as members of the county's upper class, but Jenny seems to be making fun of her too when she expresses a worry that Gowan's mother may ring the doorbell at the Sartoris mansion, perhaps looking for her runaway son.
On the Sunday after Lee was arrested, the local Baptist minister uses his evil ways as the occasion for a sermon. According to the report Horace heard, Lee was condemned "not only as a murderer" but for having a child "begot in sin" (128).
Horace refers to Lee's "good customers," the men of Yoknapatawpha who regularly bought whiskey illegally from him in the past but turned on him once he was arrested (127).
