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Show Farm Wifo Launches Country Storo SHELLSBURG. lOWA.-Marking a rebirth of the country store In Benton county, Hobby Harbor hat been launched as a typical old time mercantile business establishment by a farmer's wift In her farm home near here. Mrs. Opal Cardcmann, a former school teacher, who wanted to start the venture "In a small way," thought $500 worth of merchandise would bt enough to stock tht ttort. Now her stock Inventory It about $3,000, and she already hat made plans to remodel the farm homt to provide additional merchandise space. Farm families in the vicinity tnd motorists attracted by tht sign tacked to a telephone pole near tht entranct to tht Cardcmann farm are amazed to find they can. buy radios, washing machines, tnd countless items that art hard to get t |