The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-12-19
CHRISTMAS
EAT|N' {
1 GOING I)P'

Very expensive is the condition OF
the fruits and vegetables now on the
market
Take cranbeiries. No one would ac
cuse cranberries OF hniug mercenary
or exacting They khca that every
selfrespecting citizen must nave them
at Christmas, but they do not desire
G. take advantage OF the necessities Of
The public for purposes of eXi0rtion
CranberIies are a poor crop and they
simply have to sell high or go into the
hands of a receiver.
The stuatioa IS worse even than
expected and this naturally makes The
rise unavoidable. The price has risen
from $3.50 per barrel wholesale. TO
$3.50 since the season opened.
Must Be Some Profit,
50 it is many other institutions. The
fruits aud the vegetables are not do
ing a charity bazaar play They have
80 figure profit Cabbages are go
ing up all over the country. They
have the elevator boys beaten mile
ln going MP and they will soon be in a
class with aerolplanes and gasoline
stoves. There never was fiorcer
year for cabbages. AT present Guthrie
abbageites are being fed on New York
cabbage The German shamrock is
sure hard TO find these days and the
boiled dinner is down and out Sauer
kraut. naturally, Is IN the same co'tIi
ton as its father and mother and the
time may come when a pinch OF . Will
be put up IN q 50-cent bottle and sold
like smelling salts. Kraut has doubled
in price since it first appeared on the
market The best brands are now
wh lesaling at SIG per barrel.
Oranges Are the Exception.
In all this chorus or Going up" il
pleasant to find dissenting voice
rhe California navel oranges which
rave just begun their season, are, If
The word of their manager may be
believed, the lowest now that may be
expected all winter. True there was {
small rise in the orange market but
he grccers say the market has been
below normal and that the price prob
lbly viii not increase much II any
more,
Apples. try as they would, htYe had
TO advance. The apple situation IL
very firm. The cost has the "goin
Fps" also. This is due, lt is said, to a
better quality of apples tilow . the
uailtet aud the adduionak eosi OF box
ng and storing them.
Sweet potatoes are also infected with
lmbiti-n. They are scarce now hnd
viii not last long and tn Sc that re
nain, realizing that they VIII never be
here again and that they do not have
10 consider public opinion, are bound
10 make q little money ii they have to
steal IT, Tney have gone fifty cents
a barrel in ten days.
Plenty ~ Grape Fruit.
Florida grape fruit is now as thick
IS brides in June. The Florida grape
ruit Is said to be the finest In the
world. Time was when Guthrie did
rot realize that behind their rather
lsusk and bitter manner lay n sterling
.haracter. But every traveller to Flor
da and the South has come back a
over of grapo fruit, and as travel Is
arge the local market has grown rap
.dly Moral: An easy way TO appear
b have been traveller is to cal large
quantities OF glape fruit.
Florida pineapples began coming ~
more t1an week ago. The Florida
lines are considered 10 be better IN
layor than the Cubans. The Cubans
lre not now on the market, although
| he crop IS reported as the biggest
Hnce the war the Florida fruit Is
title higher Than the prices prevailing
| Turing tle spring, but the largest size
line SIN retaila at from - TO 80 cents