What happens
Lum Edwards, newly promoted to circulation manager by Dogeny Smith, is sent to deliver bundles of pamphlets on honesty and right living to a town near Pine Ridge. Lum is eager to prove himself, hoping the promotion will help him win a $10,000 prize for the town's most honest, kind, and generous citizen. Before leaving, he talks with Abner about setting up a small office and getting rubber stamps for his packages. Dogeny then gives Lum detailed instructions for his trip, including a password and a meeting place. Lum prepares to set off on the mail hack and train, with Abner and Mose seeing him off. This Lum and Abner episode, from February 20, 1942, was broadcast on NBC, Mutual, CBS and ABC, with Chester Lauck, Norris Goff and Lurene Tuttle among the lead actors.
Pine Ridge, a small community with a general store and library, and the nearby county seat and railroad depot.
Characters: Lum Edwards, Abner Peabody, Dogeny Smith, Mose, Mr. Delancy, John
Listen for: Lum's eagerness to prove himself as circulation manager, and the instructions Dogeny gives him for the trip to Fort Smith.
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.