L&A (154) Lum Goes Into Business With Squire
Abner's efforts to boss Lum around after their business split backfire when Lum quits the store and unexpectedly announces a new partnership with Squire Skimp.
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Abner's efforts to boss Lum around after their business split backfire when Lum quits the store and unexpectedly announces a new partnership with Squire Skimp.
After leaving Abner's employ, Lum is persuaded by Squire Skimp to become president of a mysterious new business venture.
A silver-mine investment craze sweeps Pine Ridge, drawing residents into a get-rich-quick scheme and leaving Abner struggling to keep his store staffed.
A circus detour lands Fibber at a shooting gallery, where his boasts about being “Gun Gun McGee” are put to the test and his suspiciously impressive marksmanship involves a young accomplice.
Abner's resistance to Pine Ridge's new high-society obsession leaves him vulnerable to a scheme aimed at taking control of the Jot 'Em Down Store.
Abner's refusal to put his money into the silver-mine craze leads to a confrontation that ends with him being forcibly taken away.
As Pine Ridge residents pour money into silver-mine stock, Dick Huddleston grows suspicious while Abner and Grandpap embrace their sudden social ambitions.
Abner begins suffering the consequences of his extravagant high-society lifestyle while Lum grows suspicious of the silver-mine investment behind the town's frenzy.
After losing their fortune and their store, Lum and Abner devise a plan to take their grocery business directly to customers instead of relying on a fixed location.
Lum and Abner design a mobile grocery store built around Abner's automobile and begin a community contest to choose a name for the unusual business.
While planning their new store on wheels and reviewing naming-contest entries, Lum and Abner receive an unexpected proposal from Squire Skimp.
Lum and Abner discover a major practical problem with their newly completed store on wheels when they try to remove it from the blacksmith shop where it was built.
As Cedric loads merchandise into the newly built rolling store, Lum and Abner discover a design flaw that threatens the venture before its first real trip.
The rolling grocery store finally takes to the road, but a series of design problems immediately forces Lum and Abner to improvise solutions.
Lum and Abner's rolling store starts attracting customers away from Dick Huddleston, although operating expenses and a minor mishap quickly complicate the promising debut.
Lum and Abner review the early finances of their rolling store while making the final decision in the public contest to name the business.
Lum and Abner make plans to dispose of the troubled silver mine, only to discover that a supposed investor is a notorious confidence man.
With the silver-mine scheme exposed as fraudulent, angry investors demand their money back and Lum becomes an outcast despite Abner's loyalty.
Hoping to restore his damaged reputation, Lum devises a fake kidnapping scheme in which he plans to rescue Abner and become a local hero.
Lum's staged kidnapping plot escalates when a ransom demand and armed townspeople turn the fake crime into a dangerously serious community manhunt.
The fake kidnapping has grown so far out of control that Lum considers confessing the truth while a detective and the townspeople continue pursuing the supposed criminals.
Lum prepares to give a public speech about honesty even as his own troubles over the silver-mine company threaten to expose him to arrest.
Lum faces serious legal charges over the failed mine venture and sacrifices his possessions while trying to repay the investors who lost money.
Lum and Abner turn to amateur detective work in hopes of locating Squire Skimp, whose testimony could be crucial to clearing Lum in the mine case.
As Lum prepares for trial on fraudulent-stock charges, police in Tulsa finally arrest Squire Skimp, but an unexpected accident may complicate his return.
Squire Skimp returns to Pine Ridge for Lum's trial carrying yet another business proposition, leaving Lum vulnerable to a familiar style of salesmanship.
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