The proprietors of the Jot 'Em Down Store and Library are looking after a runaway girl, or is it the other way around? As if that weren't enough to keep them on their toes, Lum and Abner have to contend with a measles epidemic, a new round of school board elections, and unwanted attention from Squire Skimp and Uncle Henry Lunceford!

Chester Lauck and Norris Goff take you deep into the Arkansas Ozarks in 36 consecutive episodes from the summer of 1943.

Episodes include: "Ellie Poses as Lum's Niece" 07-29-43; "Convinced Ellie Is Mary" 08-02-43; "Keeping Mary Entertained" 08-03-43; "Who's Mary's Guardian" 08-04-43; "Gaining Custody of Mary" 08-05-43; "A Scientific Discussion" 08-09-43; "Curing Cedric's Insomnia" 08-10-43; "Squire Suspicious of Mary" 08-11-43; "Mary's Romantic Problems" 08-12-43; "Mary Will Be on Probation" 08-16-43; "Trailing Mary Around Town" 08-17-43; "On Uncle Henry's Good Side" 08-18-43; "Lum and Abner Mind the Jail" 08-19-43; "Uncle Henry in Wheelchair" 08-23-43; "Trouble for Stealing Kettle" 08-24-43; "Measles and Quarantined" 08-25-43; "Cedric Infects Everyone" 08-26-43; "Nurse Lunsford and the Sick" 08-30-43; "Story of Snorter the Pig" 08-31-43; "Getting Rid of Uncle Henry" 09-01-43; "Report on the Reformatory" 09-02-43; "Impersonating Conscience" 09-06-43; "Lum Changes Henry's Mind" 09-07-43; "Mary Is Lum and Abner's" 09-08-43; "Discuss Modern Conveniences" 09-09-43; "President of School Board" 09-13-43; "Caleb Deciding Vote" 09-14-43; "Caleb Elected President" 09-15-43; "Lum Mopes over Losing" 09-16-43; "Cedric, High School Student" 09-20-43; "Doing Favors for Cedric" 09-21-43; "Paper for English Class" 09-22-43; "Lum, a Self-Made Man" 09-23-43; "Trade School Classes"09-27-43; "Class in Storekeeping" 09-28-43; "Lum Leaves Town" 09-29-43.