The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-27
Saturday MarketerS Will Find
Just About What They
Have Been Buying.
FRUIT is QUITE SCARCE.
BUTTER AND EGG PRICES RANGE
QUITE HIGH FOR THIS SEASON
OF THE YEAR-cHoIcE SPRING
CHICKENS. -.

Local retail provision markets are
featurless at the present time, owing
to the fact that there is nothing new
on the markets and they are remain
ing practically uniform. The question
of the Sunday dinner is easily solved,
as sweet potatoes, chickens. celery
and all these things which go to make
up delicate dishes are on the market
at the present time. People of Rich
mond however will nave to buy about
the same things that they have been
buying for some time.
AS a general rule, fruits of all kinds
are scarce; peaches probably more so
than any other. Good peaches are
selling at 81 and $3.50 per bushel. But
few people have had the temerity to
ask for enough peaches to can Pota-
toes are plentiful and the prices are
descending. Good "spuds' are now
selling for ninety cents per bushel
and the quantity is not limited. Good
new potatoes are now being dug by
the farmers, n sold in Richmond
not only through the retail stores but
by the farmers themselves directly
off their wagons. Apples r becom-
ing more plentiful, owing to the open
ing up of the fall season. Many of
the apples now being sold are not of
knotty, knariy varieties, but are first
class smooth fruit. They are selling
readily at 50 and $3.50 per bushel.
Watermelons and nutmeg melons are
also plentiful, even though the sea-
son is advanced. Oranges are very
scarce. The grocerymen are claiming
that they are worth sixty cents per
dozen, and overs Of this fruit are
having to pay the price before they
can partake. The orange situation
will grow better as the holiday ca
son approaches. California plums are
selling freely at fifteen cents per
quart. The quality is fine and in the
absence of home grown fruit Of this
character they are quickly sold. The
egg plant market is long, there being
more egg plants han the grocerymen
know exactly what to do with. They
are selling for ten, fifteen and twenty
cents each.
Butter Prices High.
One of the more noticeable features
of the local provision market is the
high price of country butter and eggs.
Eggs are now retailing at twenty-five
cents per dozen. They are very scarce
it is asserted and the condition will
grow worse from now on until next
spring. 1t is almost impossible for
local merchants to secure good coun-
try butter. The farmers are not only
selling their cream to the creameries
over the county but many of them are
buying creamery butter. Such a con-
dition does not speak well for the
supply in Richmond during the COM
ing winter. A local merchant says
tina where he generally received n
hundred pounds of good countS. but
ter each week, he now receives about
twenty-five. The retail price is TWEEN
ty-five cents per pound.
Corn, beans and sweet potatoes are
plentiful. it is said. just now The
season for these is rapidly nearing
its end however.
Choice spring chickens, dressed. are
retailing for 40, As ard so cents per
head. They are choice and sell well.
Ducks and turkeys will soon find their
way onto the local markets.