
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.

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

Kate tries to restore the self-confidence of Floyd Smoot after he is jilted by his mail-order sweetheart, by pretending to be in love with him.

The railroad president decides to scrap the Cannonball himself.

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