
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.

Kate is missing as a big convention is meeting to decide where to hold their convention, she is stuck in a cave.

Kate asks the judge if she can legally keep Billie Jo from going to Hollywood.

The railroad president decides to scrap the Cannonball himself.

Curtis breaks the throttle of the Cannonball and blocks the way to Kate's jamboree.