Mis' Whinker

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Lives on University Avenue.  Was out in the alley when Mr. Gumpox told of his horse, Cecil, dying.

Mis' Harris

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Is from Decatur, Illinois. Runs a rooming house across the alley from the Gooks on University Street.  Sade saw her while Christmas shopping in Yamilton's.  Sade made a flower garden arrangement for her. Offered to let the Gooks take care of her vegetable garden.  She goes to Park End Church. Her telephone number is #7761-L. Sells Christmas cards.  As of August 1939, she doesn't belong to the Thimble Club. Later joins the Thimble Club.  Gave away buyer's choice of a lemonade stirrer or a map of Montana with each two dozen Christmas card purchased. Has a chicken coop in her back yard.  Wanted to get rid of her roomer, Mr. Overholt and Sade promised to get Vic to evict him.  Has "a heart as soft as butter," according to Sade.  Is a widow. Has a married son named Harold who almost drowned in Rose Willow Creek.  Raises cabbage and turns it into sauerkraut, which she sells.  Wanted to raise pansies in the Gook yard and Sade refused, causing tension between the two.

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In Series 2, she became a real character, played by Dolly Day.

Her father is Mr. Sprawl, an elderly gentleman who she watched out for and became upset at Uncle Fletcher for him prodding her father back to his house when he was actually trying to go to the grocery store. Her first name is Florence.  She claims she was born in Decatur, Illinois.  She does not trust Jimmy Custard as she would not let him in her house to do his calistoking.  Engaged to be married to Dwight Twentysixler.

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Mr. Gumpox

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The town's garbage collector.  His first name is 'Jake.'  He borrowed Vic's lodge robe and returned it with a raspberry pie and a thank you card. Married a woman named Josephine via mail-order matrimonial serice; the two moved to West Chestnut Street.  It's very likely this was a short-lived marriage.  Doesn't wear socks.  Owned a horse named 'Margaret Evelyn' that died.  Owned a horse named 'Cecil' who pulled his garbage wagon until Cecil died.  In the meantime, a horse named 'Vernon' pulled the wagon.  Owns a horse named, 'Howard.' Offered Sade a horse stall to store junk. Once got punched in the nose by Mr. Donahue for blowing kisses at Mis' Donahue. Has a collection of girlie magazine covers on the walls inside Howard's stall.  Has a brother that owns a shoe store that burned up. Sells Christmas cards. Hauls around Uncle Fletcher and his junk a lot. Has an automobile horn on his garbage wagon.  Lives at the Bright Kentucky Hotel.  Never misses a motion picture opening at the Bijou. He and the Brick Mush man sometimes argue. He once found Vic's discarded plumme' lodge hat and put it on Howard as a sun hat. He once wore Ike Kneesuffer's old lodge regalia on his garbage route. Wasn't until November of 1945 that he noticed the broken Gook garbage box from July of 1944.  The citizens of Dwight and Streator dubbed him the Grand Old Man of Garbage (he deemed that an honor.) Gave away awards for prettiest garbage box.  Lost his dentures that were found by Mr. Overholt.  Was often awakened by a fast passenger train that would flash by the Bright Kentucky Hotel sixty or seventy miles an hour.  The building would shake from the vibration and he'd ride all around the room in his bed. One time he rode right out the bedroom into the hallway.  He woke up the next morning in the hall by the fire-escape, thirty-five feet from the spot where he'd retired. Spends many of his nights reading at the public library. Some of his close friends call him 'Francis'.