Well let's see. Arnold Ziffle was actually an FBI informant for Hoover. Oliver Douglas went broke at farming and started suing local business owners like Haney & Drucker. Seems Oliver got the FTC and UL after Haney for faulty products and Drucker was steaming open everyones mail. Sarah the switchboard operator was sued for a monopoly on the phone company and it was split and sold to Hank Kimble and Ralph Monroe Kimble Dawson. Oliver handled the Kimble divorce as well. Lisa ran off with Newt Killey after the locust ate all the valleys crops. Modernization killed Hooterville :>} OH BTW Oliver had a very profitable moonshine business and used the farm for a write off.