
Widow Kate Bradley and her three daughters - Bobbie Jo, Billie Jo and Bettie Jo - run the Shady Rest Hotel, a small-town inn where city folks come to enjoy the quiet. Nothing much happens around Hooterville, so it's up to the girls to come up with their own schemes for fun.

Uncle Joe becomes the new town postmaster and moves the post office to the Shady Rest.

An old flame of Uncle Joe, the Widow Perkins, and he are corresponding to each other, even though she once left him standing at the alter.

Bobbie Jo enters a contest sponsored by Gitney's Old English Tomato Sauce and wins first prize, an English butler.

Kate battles rural postmasters to recover an ill-advised letter.