A policewoman shoots and kills an armed robber, and when the criminal's weapon turns up missing, she must prove that she didn't shoot an unarmed suspect.
Ned demands that the mine be shut down for repairs; Aunt Rose urges Nellie not to marry Ned; schoolmates face off against the pit boys in a baseball game.
Willie finds his missing horse in the mine and wants to find out who stole it, but Ned is more concerned with finding explosives recently taken from the mine.
Glace Bay adjusts to the installation of a public telephone in the train station lobby, and Willie is inspired to write a letter to Alexander Graham Bell.
Willie uses his new camera, a gift from Alexander Graham Bell, to take a photo of an old haunted house and unknowingly snaps a picture of the owner's daughter.
A well-known newspaper reporter from Halifax arrives to interview Willie when his photo is printed showing the poor working conditions in the coal mines.
A notorious gunslinger seeking revenge for his foster father's death is wounded in a shoot-out and nursed back to health by a compassionate Quaker family.