
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.

The railroad president decides to scrap the Cannonball himself.

Charley decides it's time to quit as engineer of the Cannonball when the citizens of Hooterville seem too busy to spend any time with him.

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe tries once again to get rid of the Hooterville Cannonball, this time by getting Floyd and Charley to quit by harassment.

Kate is surprised at her old school teacher's new personality.