The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-06-24
WATER MELONS HAVE ARRIVED
A Half Dollar is the Prevail !
ing Price.
Strawberries Are Passing into the
Great Beyond and will Last hut a
Few Days-TOmatocs are still a
Trirle Scarce and Selling Rapidly
at Twenty Gents u POund-Othcr
Vegetables and Fruits.

Hot weather has come and with IT
the longing for shade trees and ham
mocks, for vacation days at the lakes
and band concerts I'M the parks. Along
with these has come a change in diet.
Green vegetables and fruits const-
tute the greater share of the menus
for the summer meals. TO meet this
demand. the markets are flied to
overnowng with fruits and garden
produce. The latest arrival of table
delicaoies Is the canteloupe and water
melon. q There are quantities Of them
In the markets and the prices ara not
high, either. Fifteen cents will buy
large, juicy melons that make q, deli
cious dessert. sWatermelons are priced
at so cents. pigeapples. at 10 cents
each. bannas at i5 aud 20 cents a
dozen. Oranges at 80 and 40 cents
are alsolold stahd-bys for after din
ner courses rrs .t g.it
California, black cherries. large and
highly naVored as we'll as. the COM
mon homo, grown cherries aBe offered
in abundance at the price of ten cents
per quapt or at $3.50 bushel. Goose
berries come at ten cents a quart and
dew-herples may be had for, fifteen
cents per quart. Strawberries are
quickly. passing into the great be-
yond. scarcely any being offered for
salel Red raspberries too, are scarce
at twenty cents a box and black ones
are not oyerplentiful at fifteen cents,
Radishes are sold at the price of ten
cents for three buncnes and green
onions are offered four punches for n
| dime Tomatoes are still twenty cents
pound. For while. they were
rather scarce but there is fairly
good supply In this weeks market.
Cucumbers are having a steady but
not large sale at eight and ten cents
per pound.
| Lettuce is in great demand at the
price of fifteen cents pound and eau
linower is steady at twenty cents,
Rhubarb win soon be a thing of the
past. but the price for the last sew
eral weeks has not changed, "A bunch
selling at five cents. Beets and car
rots are priced at Ave cents a bunch.
Peas are very scarce and will no doubt
he gop, in short time. The few TO
| re h3d are priced at ten cents "A quart.
Pc ms too, are going. The price now,
is twenty cents a pound. Cabbage
sells at fifteen and twenty cents IA
head, and spinach sells at ten cents
per pound.
A few apples shipped from the west
are still on hand. but they are and
have been very scarce, Old potatoes
which have been quoted at thirty
five cents peck, have dropped to
thirty cents The new ones are now
selling at seventy cents a peck or
about three dollars a bushel, which is
considerably higher than they were
last year. Vegetables that have been
offered by practically all merchants
for the past several weeks, are be-
ginning to get scarce. Fruit prices,
with the exception Of lemons, have
changed little in the past week.
Lemons have advanced five cents Il
dozen IN the last month, the price
now quoted heing thirty cents a dozen,
or about three cents each. Currants
are quoted at ten cents a quart or
three dollars a bushel.