Although Ratliff calls them "boys," the five frustrated suitors who "bushwack" McCarron "in the buggy to drag him out of it and maybe beat him up or anyhow skeer him out of Frenchman's Bend" are well past puberty, and probably young adults (105). Two of them are doubtless the two former suitors who (like McCarron) flee Yoknapatawpha when Eula's pregnancy is disclosed.
The Jefferson hotel porter named Samson works with someone whom Ratliff refers to as "Samson's least boy," whose one action in the novel is carrying a newspaper for the white bondsman when he leaves the hotel (103). It's not clear what "least boy" means - perhaps he is a bellboy at the hotel or possibly he is Samson's youngest son.
In The Town "old man Job" is a janitor in Judge Dukinfield's court. He has an "old cast-off tailcoat of Judge Dukinfield's that he wore on Sundays" (102). He also appears in "Smoke." (There is another "Job" in The Sound and the Fury, but he seems to be a different character.)
As the meeting of aldermen breaks up, this boy "come burrowing through and up to the table and handed Lawyer something and Lawyer taken it" (92). The note is from Eula Varner Snopes.
When the town's aldermen ask him to hold a hearing on Gavin Stevens' complaint against Manfred de Spain, Judge Dukinfield recuses himself from the case and names Gavin's father to serve in his stead (102). He could also be the "judge" whom Gavin has in mind later when he imagines Flem telling Eula's mother about his plans to file for divorce (307).
Jefferson is governed by both an elected Board of Aldermen as well as a Mayor. This unnamed alderman is the one who responds to Gavin Stevens' request that the town drain the water tank to find the brass Flem has stolen by saying, "I don’t know how much it will cost to drain that tank, but I for one will be damned - " before Gavin cuts him off (89).
"When I say 'we' and 'we thought,'" Charles says on the novel's first page, "what I mean is Jefferson and what Jefferson thought" (3). This entry represents the "town," the people of Jefferson as a group, in that larger role - as spectators, commentators and interpreters - at various points in the narrative. As a group, they often preserve the history of Yoknapatawpha; Gavin, for instance, mentions the men who were still alive in his childhood who before the Civil War "had actually seen" the steamboat that Ikkemotubbe, one of the Chickasaw chiefs, lived in as his 'big house' (331).
These aldermen are elected officials who (along with the town mayor) govern Jefferson. In the novel, the board of aldermen meets to consider Gavin Stevens' complaint against Mayor de Spain.
