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Pop is a theatrical producer in the village of Plum Center. Pop's offerings, presented at the Tuttle Opery House, consist of "Romeo and Juliet" and "Richard III."

Nosey Nichols, the official bootlegger, discovers that his still is on fire. The delays before Pop Tuttle and his fire squad, headed by Tillie, finally get to the scene of need, provoke a great deal of irresistible comedy.

Pop takes a trip to the city and purchases a flivver to serve as the village bus.

Pop Tuttle, as owner of the only bus line in Plum Center, discovers that he has a competitor, Nosey Nichols. Pop and Nosey race to meet "yesterday's train" which is just arriving and all the passenger's patronize Nosey's new bus until they discover a fair passenger in Pop's bus. Then they all transfer. Nosey loosens the nut on one of the wheels of Pop's bus and when it comes off Nosey drives up and gets the trade. Undaunted Pop gets a kid to throw a polecat into Nosey's bus and once more the passengers return to Pop's, Tillie, the Great Dane, supporting the broken wheel on a wheelbarrow.

Pop takes a correspondence school course in the art of sleuthing.

After a Russian Count dies in Pop's hotel, to attract customers he starts a rumor that the count left a large amount of cash hidden somewhere in the hotel. The townspeople check in and commence destroying everything in sight to find it.

Pop Turtle drives the "bus that meets all trains" at Plum Centre, and also runs the only picture show in town. The Purity League is determined to wipe out Pop Tuttle's "den of vice" but when he puts on a "special attraction" by rehearsing a jobless waitress and introduces her as a disciple of Hollywood, the townspeople and the reformers flock to get a glimpse of her.

Pop Tuttle runs the village stage, which meets all trains. He is returning with the week's mail when he is held up by a bandit. He consents to give the thug the mail if he will shoot bullet holes in his hat as an alibi. After the bandit empties his gun shooting holes in Pop's clothes, Pop pulls his own gun and making him mount Wildfire, the town's truck horse, rides him into town and gets the reward.

Pop becomes infatuated with a married woman who poses as a widow and behaves like one at the dance, but is painfully disillusioned when he discovers her jealous husband.

One of those much-advertised painless dentists opens up an office in Pop's town and invites the innocent onlookers to have their teeth pulled free of charge.