A runaway girl, fleeing brutal treatment at an orphanage, creates a stir in Dodge City among saloon hangers-on.
While Oliver makes plans to get the farm in working order Lisa travels to New York to pack up their furniture. The Hooterville locals begin gossiping assuming Lisa left him for good. While she's in the city Oliver's mother connects her with an architect who designs an extravagant country club.
An ex-saloon girl's coming marriage is threatened by her former boyfriend.
Lisa is shocked that Hooterville doesn't have a beauty salon. She calls her mother-in-law who ships out her hair dresser Claude. (She blackmails him with one word: Scranton .) Setting up shop on the Cannonball he gives the Hooterville women new hairdos. Now they're too beautiful for farm work.
Lisa is against buying neighboring property owned by the Watsons until she sees their farmhouse. Thinking the house is part of the deal, Lisa sells the Watsons' furniture to Mr. Haney and has their things brought over. All of this happens while Oliver is in New York arranging the financing.
