Snake Hogan Won’t Sell the Jot ’em Down Store

Originally Aired: August 9, 1935

In Lum & Abner #170, "Snake Hogan Won't Sell the Jot 'em Down Store," Abner has squandered the entire $2,000 he received from selling the Jot 'em Down Store, with nothing left but a troublesome secondhand automobile. Having hit rock bottom, he and Lum decide to pool their meager resources and return to their partnership in the store business. They approach Snake Hogan, who now owns their former establishment, and he agrees to sell it back for $1,500 with a thousand dollars down payment.

The problem is money. Lum has only $350 from his commissions selling shares in Squire's silver mine, and Abner is completely broke. Abner spends a frustrating day at the county seat trying to sell his twelve-cylinder automobile, hoping to raise the remaining cash, but no one will make him an offer. Dick Huddleston suggests they try trading the car directly to Snake as part of the down payment. With renewed hope, Lum telephones Snake to propose this new arrangement, but when honesty gets the better of him and he admits they simply cannot raise the cash any other way, the deal appears to hang in the balance.