after a little more digging I did find something more interesting about the man R.J.Green(Reuben) that very well may indicate him being the same one that both nhbenz and I pointed to.According to the 1880 census for Corning, he was a retail grocer, born about 1849 in Kentucky, his parents both were born in Indiana. In 1882 he married a Mattie J .The R.J.Green from Paragould was also a Reuben, born about 1848 in Kentucky,both parents born in Indiana, married in 1882 to a Martha J.The 1900 census for Paragould lists him as a saloon keeper, as nhbenz suggested.(Keep in mind that census records often misspell names of persons like Mattie and Martha and birth dates may fluctuate as well.)So I now think that the two are one in the same. He probably had his business house in Corning where he married in 1882 and moved to Paragould by at least 1894 as brought out by nhbenz, where he began keeping a saloon, without the competition there would have been in Corning.He probably saw the profit others were making in Corning and decided to move a little farther south, not too far to Paragould and named his saloon after his birthstate, the Kentucky Saloon.After all, according to that newspaper from Corning, he was a hustler.So where did the token originate from, the retail store or the saloon? Anybodies guess could be right, but based on location, I would bank on the retail grocery, the business house.
