Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-19
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Almost Everything in the Markets
Good Quality and Quantity.
Prices Lower Than Last Week on Al
most Al! Table Dainties.

The Sunday dinner ought not to
trouble housekeepers to any great eX-
tent, this week. There is an abundance
of good stuff in the market, although
the days of green peas and string beans
are over. Some dealers have Il few of
these, and good ones, too. but they are
too scarce to reckon upon. Corn is
still in the market in good supply and
quality, retailing at 20 cents a dozen.
There are vegetables enough for all
the vegetarianS and some for the meat
eaters who wish to sneak in q side dish,
now ana then. Squashes, right from
the neigh boring farms are plenty at
three cents a pound, and if pumpkin
pie is what you are looking for, you can
set the material for 10 cents Il piece on
the yellow. Cabbages, onions and beats
are retailing at three cents per pound,
and turnips at two.
The potato rot does not affect price or
quality, as yet. Murphies bring g.
cents per bushel, but you will have to
bake them if you want them to stay
Whole. Nice sweet potatoes are 10pound3
for Il quarter. Cucumbers go at two
cents apiece. Apples of all kinds are
plenty. and YOU can get almost any
thing you want at your own price. Best
cooking apples are - cents "a peck and
range from that uD to % for the best
eating fruit. CaulilioWer goes at 20 to
So cents according to the quality.
Native celery brings - cents Il bunch;
While the Boston product is 25 and is
much superior in quality. Berries are
| out of the reckoning, but cranberras
are just coming into it. The prospect
does not promise a great quantity, this
! year. but the quality is excellent. You
! can have some today, for 10 cents a
quart.
Lots of butter will be needed with all
this. and it has fallen appreciably, the
| past week, as the market quotations for
To-Day, will show. No need to eat dry
| bread, now, nor scrinp the butter on
| your sweet potato.
Chickens are off a little. too, you can
get them for 90 to % cents pound, and
! cood quality fowl are is to 20. Veal
steaks are % cents, and roasts, s to II.
Lamb is 10 cents for fore quarter. II FOR
! hind, and IS for leg; chop ribs Will cost
| you about "a.
| Beefsteak is at the same prices as
| last week, best cuts, 80, top round, 20
! ;lnC DOltOll ID. Loll TodStS Will COSl
| only 70 and Porterhouse cuts. 30. Pork
costs % cents at wholesale, but retails
ut T.. all the same. Dealers used to
reckon on three cents profit, but are
content with two, now.
| Fish has been scarce on account Of
! the storm and gale, but is in fairly
| good supply. today. Halibut is just
as nice as ever, and you can buy
steaks at about 16 cents. SWordfSh
! will stick you for Is. Mackerel holds
| the place of honor, this week, and the
| dealer speaks up good and loud, when
you ask him about it. The supply is
from Portland and retails at is cents.
Rluehsh cost IS cents Salmon is scarce
in the markets, and costs from p to Is
cents pound. The old rclables, had
dock and cod, are 10 cents, and hake.S.
Finny haddies are in the market, but
it is too warm to eat them much. yet.
Nice full meated Holsters are 90 cents.
CLAIMS, sheled. are % cents Il quart, and
/ oysters are 40 to 80.
The fruit market looks very tempting,
! this week. Concord grapes are to be