The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-08-09

a getty market in Hammond, that a lot
could be rented at small cost. tempo
rary stalls could be built and a market
master need nos be paid more than a
city policeman receives
Potatoes Luxury.
A we'll known Hammond man said
today, When a married man support .
ing a family pays As cents a peck for
potatoes he finds that they are costing
him about cents apiece. BY the time
they are peeled and the eyes are taken
out the potato becames one OF the most
expensive Injuries on the table
The reform in the city market in
South Bend has brought about great
results as the following dispatch from
South Bend indicates:
South Bend. Ind. Aug 9-The clos
ing of the second week OF the cI,y /.
public market saw heavy increase IN
the number of buxars and-sallers. and
the greatest variety of produce We.
offered. The crowd was laSSye and sew
eral times was handled only.with diff
Guilty Women and children. eager 10
obtain fresh vegeta hles and farm pro.
ducts at a lower rate than Is offered
by LEGAL grocers. thronged the marke,
dred and twenty-seven wagons were in
| line soon after sunrise and the number
became so great a short time later that
Market Master J. w. Peters and police
ment were compelled to drive the ped
dlers who are middlemen out to make
way for the farmers. who had come in
to dispose of garden truck
Fowls Sell Readily.
Live spring chickens and ducks were
offered in great numbers and found d
ready sale. Chickens sold at IS eenis
| a pound. a two-eent reduction over
| Saturdays price in the market The
| other fowls sold at 10 cents a pound
Little change was seen in the price oil
eggs, being sold at % cents dozen.
Except for a few exceptions. prices
on different kinds of product remained
steady during market hours. A de-
tailed list of produce and prices fol-
low
Fruit-Grapes. is cents basket
Iplums. two quarts Is cents; cherries. II
cents quart; blaclberries, 5 cents box
apples. 40 cents bushel; crab apples, q
cents peck; peaches. 20 cents basket
pears. 81 bushel; huekleberries 1.
cents box; bananas. 10 cents dozen.
Prices of Vegetables.
egetables-Rhubarb, cents bunch
potatoes. 40 cents peck; carrots, beet
and radishes. cents bunch. three fo
10 cents; cabbage, 5 cents head. tire.
for 10 cents; cucumbers. 90 ents peck
wax beans. 10 cents pound; corn beans
Is cents pound; kohlrabi. two for
cents; turnips, two punches for cents
sweet corn. 10 cents dozen. three 70
o5 cents: green onions, 5 cents bunch
three for 10 cents; old onions, 80 cent
crate; mangoes. Is cents dozen; Swis
chard. cents bunch: Savoy cabbage
Ito cents head: tomatoes, 10 cent
pound; brine pickles. % cents peck
kale. cents bunch; string beans,
and cents pound; sweet pumpkins.
cents.
Observation-Disclosures 5&15 cents
watermelons. q 40 cents.
Produce-Eggs. 20d23 cents; oil.
chickens. live, IL cents; spring chick
ems, live, IS cents: ducks. Is cent
pound.
Labor Unions Interested.
The city of indianapolis offers II
lustration of a city market which ha
fallen into the control of the middlerna
whom it was designed to eircumven'
The following clipping from the Indi
annapolis News indicates the thing
that must be avoided in the establish
ment of a city market in the cities o
the Calumet region:
at was noticeable. too. that tn
farmers that sold their vegetables a
retail on the market Saturday, did
big business. Since the people hav
learned that prices are lower amon
the farmers than among the retai
stands of the middlemen inside tn
market house the farmers have bee
1 doing the business
Tomatoes were So a bushel at tn
farmers wa gons. In the market hous
the price was two pounds for Is cents
There are sixty pounds of toma toes t
j the bushel. This made a bushel q