When Miss Hathaway gets sick and Mr. Drysdale has to speak at a conference, Jed helps out by running the bank and having Elly be his secretary, while Jethro finds a speech that Drysdale accidentally uses instead of his own. All the while a new teller (John Ashley) sucks-up to the men and flirts with the women. Jed lends money to a Mr. Wilson (Willis Bouchey), who claims to be a poor chicken rancher. Because of that, Mr. Drysdale is named "Banker of the Year".