What happens
Lum and Abner run the Jot-Em-Down store in Pine Ridge, where Abner and his friend Grandpa Mason spend a morning playing checkers and arguing. Lum has bought a new adding machine, which Abner distrusts and tries to trick into making mistakes. Talk turns to the school board meeting that evening and to the new schoolteacher, Miss Fredericks, whom the town has hired from the county seat. Abner is excited about meeting her. This is an episode of the Lum and Abner series, first broadcast on October 9, 1941, with Chester Lauck and Norris Goff as the leads and Lurene Tuttle in the role of the new teacher.
The Jot-Em-Down store in Pine Ridge
Characters: Lum Edwards, Abner Peabody, Grandpa Mason, Miss Fredericks
Listen for: Abner's attempts to trick the new adding machine and his first remarks about the new schoolteacher
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.