What happens
Great Gildersleeve, the water commissioner of Summerfield, receives an invitation to a national convention in Chicago for the president of the Jolly Boys Club. Gildersleeve wires a reply accepting on the president's behalf, though the Jolly Boys have no president yet. Gildersleeve decides the club should elect one, and at a meeting the five members each vote for themselves, producing a deadlock. Gildersleeve then tries to win votes through favors and a dinner invitation. The episode is part of The Great Gildersleeve, which aired on NBC on February 22, 1950, starring Harold Peary.
Summerfield, a small town, on Washington's Birthday in February
Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Bessie, Judge Hooker, Floyd Munson, Chief Gates, P.B. Jones, Birdie, Leroy
Listen for: Gildersleeve's telegram to Chicago accepting the presidency before the club has one, and the five-way deadlock when each Jolly Boy votes for himself
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.