Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-06
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Local Market Offers Variety of
Good Things.
Prices, Too, Are Within Reach of ALL
What Things Cost.

For the Sunday dinner this week
good things as was offered a week ago.
Prices. too, are about the same, so that
there need be no more trouble i'm sOly-
ing this always more or less veXatiouS
problem than there was last Saturday.
The large variety which the markets
present makes it possible for the house
wife to get up most eatable meal on
Sunday throughout the summer and
not repeat for the entire period.
While there are more vegitarianS in
the summer months than at any other
period of the year. it is always well to
place the meats in the first place when
enumerating what the market affords
AS yet the beef strike has caused no
further increase in prices in Augusta
How long this condition will continue
is prOblematical, but it is to be hoped
that the strike will be ended before
there is any necessity for a big boost
in prices. II you like a nice tendcrioin
you can have it at So cents per pound
while for 80 one can secure a rump or
sirloin which is good enough for any
one to eat. Other cuts can be had at
prices ranging ut from 16 to Is cents.
Best of beef roaStS are worth % to 80
cents, and the ordinary grades Is to 20
cents per pound.
Nice spring lamb is in good supply a
prices which remain unchanged from
last week. Fore quarters are worth IA
cents and kinds 20 cents a pound.
Fancy chops are worth % cents, others
20 cents.
The supply Of veal is good, steaks
selling for 81 cents and roasts for 10 to
| Is cents a pound.
Good plump spring chickens. just
right for broi'ing,' are to be had at %
| cents. Fowl brings 20 cents.
Green peas are in good supply and
the price is stationary at 30 cents n
peck. Beans are worth % cents and
green corn stays pat at 35 cents a
| dozen. New celery is worth % cents a
head and lettuce 10 cents bunch. Egg
plant is worth Is cents head.
| Tomatoes are high at II cents pound.
New potatoes are down to 81 bushcl.
! Cucumbers are selling two for cents;
carrots 5 cents 4 pound; turnips. beets
and cabbage 3 cents a pound; onions
|
The supply Of eggs is still rather
short and the price holds at &c cents a
dozen. The butter supply is unchanged
and prices are the same as last
quoted: choice dairy 90 to % cents and
creamery % to 2S cents.
During the past week the fog which
hung over the coast last week has dis
appeared and the fish market is better
supplied than for some time past,
though prices have not been affected to
any great extent. SwOrdfish sells for
| u cents: halibut at 16 to 1S: salmon Mt
- to o. Mackorel are scarce and sell
for Is cents per pound. Fresh cod and
paddock are worth 10 cents. fresh bake,
I cents.
The fruit supply is good and prices
reasonable. Peaches are selling at 20
| to 40 cents n dozen: pears at 20 to 30
cents: bananas at II to q, cents: lemons
at 20 to % cents: oranges ut 20 to 40
cents; cherries ut 40 cents n. pound:
pineapplcs ut % to 30 cents each; grape
fruit Mt 10 cents pound: watermelon
Mt % to 40 cents each: grapes ut 81
cents basket and cantalonpe Mt threa
for quarter. Bluebnrries sell two
boxes for % cents: raspberroS Il cents
n box and blackberries Mt IL cents q
box.