Cotton Office where Grimm Works in Light in August (Location)

The "platoon" of veterans that Percy Grimm organizes to preserve the peace in Jefferson uses the office where he works as a command post, orderly room and, for much of the time, a place to play poker while they are not patrolling the streets around the Square (453). The narrative calls it a "cotton office" (455), which mostly likely means it is involved in buying and selling rather than growing the staple crop of Yoknapatawpha.