Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-26
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Market Still Easy--LiuIe Change from
Last Weeks Prices.
Quotations for Today-Everything in
Good Supply Except Green Stuff.

The good housewives are looking for
the announcements of their Sunday
dinner this morning, and they will find
that prices are easy and the markets
full. The grocery man said that people
ought to know his prices, by this time,
and the fruit man announced that he
was giving things away. The other
dealers are willing to let their quota
tions talk for them.
In spite of the frequent announce
ments that green stuff is past, there is
still some in the market. There is
plenty of corn at IS cents a dozen, two
cents off from last week. String beans
are gone, but shell beans are offered at
4 cents a quart in the pod, or Il cents
shelled. And there are green peas
enough for you to get another mess, re-
failing at IS cents peck.
Other garden produce of all kinds is
plenty, at the same or lower prices than
last week. Squash goes at 2k cents
per pound and pumpkins go at 10 to Il
cents apiece. Turnips, beets and car
rots bring the same price, while the
best onions bring 8 cents. Parsnips
are, of course, not yet in. Sweet pota-
toes will accompany your beefsteak,
10 pounds for quarter. The irish
kind are still 65 cents a bushel, but they
can't be beaten for quality. Cabbage
is 2,cents a pound ard cauliflower Is to
%. Lettuce costs cents per head. The
celery is mostly Boston, at 20 cents per
bunch though there is some native Of
fcred at 10 cents. Peppers are about
cents pound.
Butter is keeping well within reach
Of 6n ir.U n q
% cents and creamery at %.
In the meat line, everybody can find
something to suit his taste. There is
chicken for 20 cents and fowl for Is.
Or if beef is wanted, the prices are just
the same as last week, 80 cents for the
best cuts. 90 for top rounds. is for bot
tom, best lOins for roasts, 80, and Pro-
terhouse, 80 Veal steaks are % and
roasts -. Lamb chops cost % for the
short ribs and Is for the long cuts.
Legs are off bit cut off, and they
ccst only 10 for the fore and II for the
Ehind quarter. Pork is at 10 cents for
spare ribs and the same for chops.
On the fish line, it Will cost you from
Il to IS cents to catch halibut, and 16
to catch mackerel. You may have hard
work to get bluefsh, but they cost IA
- to 10 cents. salmon go 1T ID W ~ CcitS
and haddock and cod at 10. Hake
bring; I, but is one of the best fish in
the market, after all. White perch are
in pretty good supply, too, at ID cents
a pound.
CLAIMS in the shell are to be had, but
it is q bit early for them to keep WE'LL
They cost 80 cents Il peck; but you can
get nice, shcled ones for % cents a
quart Only the best grade of oysters
is being handled to any extent by the
fish men, and they cost so cents quart.
The red, boiled Holsters that you see
through the window will cost 20 cents
pound, but they are first-cla5s eat
ing.
The fruit market is well supplied.
Bananas go at all prices from Is for Z
quarter to 20 cents a dozen. Peaches
are 20 % and 80 cents a dozen, pears,
Is, 80 and 40 plums, 10. ID and 20
grapes, % to 80 per COX. Apples are
plenty and cheap, Is to 20 cents per
peck according to the quality. Pine
apples run from Is to % cents apiece
and cantaloupcs from 10 cents to two
for IL quarter. Oranges are 20 to 80
cents dozen and lemons are 20
straight