The Bashful Bachelor (1942)

Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridges JotemDown general store Abner Peabody because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine so he involves Abner in a rescue effort which nearly gets both of them killed They try again and this time Geraldine is impressed Lum writes a proposal note but Abner by mistake delivers it to the Widder Abernathy who has been ready to remarry for years This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widders longgone and hiding husband