- Every year at the Bloom Center fair, the Ladies' Art Embroidery Club takes the prize for the best apple butter; many believe it's because Mrs. Plum, a member of the Club, is married to the local constable, and no one wants to upset him by giving the award to someone else. Johnny West, angered because his mother Lucinda keeps losing the award to the Club every year, looks for a way to ensure that his mother has a fair chance at the award, and he comes across some information that may well do the trick.f—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- There is ill feeling between Mrs. Lucinda West and Mrs. Plum and Selina Tubbs over the apple butter monopoly at the Bloom Center fair. The Ladies' Art Embroidery Club, of which Mrs. Plum and Miss Tubbs are members, always influence the judges to give them the premium. Johnny West, disgruntled because his mother loses the apple butter award, tells Deacon Moon all about a shell game. The proprietor of the shell game and Constable Plum have reached a mutual understanding, but upon the urgency of Moon and his cohorts, Plum raids the swindle. In order to get even with Plum, the shell game proprietor arranges with a pal to work the lost breast-pin game on the constable. They buy a pin at the general store and sell it to Plum for a goodly sum. Plum believing that he has been stung, "wishes" the pin on Johnny West, who with his mother, repairs to the Bloom Center jewelry store, followed by the Bloom Centerites. There the jeweler pronounces the breast-pin genuine and worth hundreds of dollars. With their suddenly-acquired wealth Johnny West and his mother are more highly regarded.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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