
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.

A brochure for the Shady Rest Hotel of the future is prematurely distributed.

Homer plans to keep the Cannonball from making its Christmas caroling tour.

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe arrives in Hooterville with a railroad tycoon, who is determined to purchase the Cannonball.

Uncle Jo plans to use Orville Miggs' flivver to power his own railroad and bankrupt the Hooterville Cannonball.