The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-23
GOOD THINGS IN MONTGOMERY MARKETS,
 BUT THE CHRISTMAS PRICES ARE HIGH

ducks brought down by the guns of the hunter are sold for 75 cents at the markets. There are not many of these latter sort to be had.
 Some Prices in Market. Tennessee spare ribs and back bones are considered by some people to De q greater delicacy than the home raised articles. For that reason the green grocers and market men are selling them for Is cents a pound. Home raised sausage and spare ribs can De bought for from 10 to 15 cents pound. If the housekeeper decides to feed the family on the roast beef of old Eng land" she can get 1t from 10 to l5 cents a pound.
 Rabbits and squirrels are cheap. It Is a wonder that these animals are not popular with cooks and house. keepers. They can be bought for 12 Is cents a piece or two for quarter. no matter whether squirrels or rabbits are preferred.
 Where turkey is served, there, too. must go cranberry sauce. So says tradition. Cranberries are quick sell CTS in the Christmas season as in the Thanksgiving season. Fine cranber- ries can be had at fifteen cents a quart or two quarts for twenty-five cents.
 The real Christmas dinner, so many people believe must have several punches of celery flankinE the invit- ing viands when the family Is called in to the table Kalamazoo celery, which Is better than its name. sells for five cents a bunch. Louisiana which celery Is of higher grade. its com merical figure being in Montgomery three punches for twenty-five cents.
 Oranges are getting scarce. There Is some talk that the supply will be exhausted before the holidays are over They have risen steadily in the last few days until some of the finest are bringing thirtyfive cents and even forty cents a dozen. Some oranges could be bought cheaper yesterday. but the tendency of the orange market Is upwards.
 Assorted nuts are bringing fifteen pound. There is wide range in the price of nts, however, and different qualities can be bought at different prices
 25 Cents For Fruit Cake.
 Fruit wake is selling in the Mont gomery market for twenty-five cents pound. If the housekeeper should prefer the fancier kinds that come in tin boxes she will pay $1.40 for five pounds of fruit cake nicely timed.
 French peas, a nice Christmas deli cicy. in the meat-eating -Yuletide, are bringing twenty and twenty-five cents pound, while American green peas are bringing thirty cents for. two pounds.
 Believers in the old fashioned Christi mas can get their plum pudding, nicely put up in tin cans, for twenty-five cents pound, the same price as fruit cake.
 Raisins, those that have the fine clusters. are bringing thirty-five cents a pound. although different grades of raisins can be bought at a cheaper figure.
 The best quality of Malaga grapes are selling for twenty-five cents a pound while the cheaper grades are only bringing twenty cents a pound
 As for candy, which is used with other attractive things to garnish the Christmas table, 1t can be bought for anywhere from ten cents to eighty five cents pound. Assorted cakes can be had for twenty-five cents a pound and stuffed dates and stuffed figs for thirty cents a pound.
 All sorts of vegetables can be had in the local market. They are ship ped here from Florida and Louisiana. and they are selling for a good round figure when their market value Is compared with the summer prices. The vegetables that are on sale on the To- cal markets are celery, lettus, cauli- flowers, cabbage. snap beans, aspara- gus, spinach. beets and tomatoes.
 One of the market men said yestsr- day that he expected to put on today for the first time fresh strawberries.
 In short anything good to eat can be had in the Montgomery market. the only consideration and an inn portant consideration, being the price.