The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-25
PILGRIM FATHERS
 MIGHT ENVY OUR PRESENT DAY FEAST
Markets Teeming With Good Things For the Thanksgiv-
 ing Day Spread. Prices On Many Sorts of the Holiday Foods in the
 Local Stores.

RE1cCS On NAdny OOHS0 OA ~AA~
 Holiday Foods in the
 Local Stores.
 Hail to Thanksgiving! The one day in the year when everyone eats just as much as he can and then as much ynore.
 what a Joyous festival those staid ola Pilgrims did institute, but how H1- tie did they dream that such a great grand, marvellous country as this IS, would one day be celebrating their holiday with almost as much thank 1uIness and twice much spirit as they themselves showed
 And how these first Thanksgiving turkeys have multiplied themselves Certainly there couldn't have been more than a half dozen or so on that significant day, but next Thursday thsre'H be hundreds Of thousands ot those very game birds reigning su- prerme on the tables of their sincere admirers.
 As for cranberries, celery, nuts, pumpkin pies and the hundred and one other delicious things which go to make up the Thanksgiving dinner there Is no doubt that, were it only possible, those stern old Pilgrims would much rather have come to one of our dinners than we would have wanted to go to theirs
 trip through the local markets was recently made in order to get some idea of the prevailing prices.
 StoresIeepers said that there was no znaterial difference between the prices -Of this year and those of last. On a few things it varied two or three cents from that ofIast year, but this was att trIbuted rather to a scarcity or an abundance Of the article than to any. other causes.
 The following prices were obtained:
 TURKEYS. GEESE DUCKS.
 Turkeys. 26, Ss. 30. sz. s5 cents a pound The 26 and 2S cent turkeys are western, the 30 New York State, and fhe s2 and s5 cent native.
 Geese, 20 and 2e cennS-
 Long Island ducks, 20 cents.
 ChfckeEs. roasting, 20 to g cents. Chickens fowls, is to 22 cents. AMONG THE VEGETABLES. Potatoes, white bring about g centsJ per peck Potatoes. sweet bring about 20 cents Onions. 5 cents per quart, s perl peck
 Turntps, yellow fs cents per peck Tarnips. white 2 cents per peck. Caulidower. to 20 cents per head + LettucA to 12 cents per head. [ Beets 5 cents per bunch. Squash, cents pere pound.
 Pumpkins sand cents per pound Celery, 10 to % cents per bunch Cranberrfes. 10 and 1R cents per quart
 FRUIT. Apples. 20 to S5 cents per peck Bananas Is and 20 cents per dozen- Figs, IS and IS cents per pound l Grape fruit, to 10 cents a piece. One store offers them 6 for 25 cents
 Grapes. Malaga, 15 to IS cents per pound. TolEay, 12 cents. Lemons. 30 cents per dozen
 Oranges. 15 to 40 cents per dozen. Tangerines, 30 cents per dozen.
 CHEESE
 The price of cheese remains about the same. American cream cheese, IS kD 2e cents per pound; Young Ameri- can cheese. 25 cents; Camenrbert, 30 and 35 cents each; cream cheese in tin foil and 10 cents each; Muenster, 23 cents; Roquefort, 40 cents; Swiss cheese, 25 and s5 cents.
 EGGS.
 The price Of strictly fresh" eggs seems to vary in different stores. Eggs from around Bridgeport bring from 60 to 70 cents per dozen Housatonic road eggs are 35 cents per dozen. Western fresh eggs are 55 cents per dozen Cold storage eggs range from 29 to 40 cents per dozen
 BUTTER.
 Creamery butter5 bring from 34 to S cents per pound; print butter, 37 to go cents and cooking butter 30 cents
 NUTS Nuts, as one of the storekeepers said. are scarce and poor. Mixed nuts bring 12 1-2. IS and 20 cents per pound: al- 1nOnds, IS to 9 cenuS; Brazil nuts 20 cents per pound; 1i1berts, 1S and Is cents per pound; oceans, Il, IA and 16 cents per pound; walnuts, English, 1s % and 22 cents; hickory nuts, g cents; Italian chestnuts. cents per pound
 WINES
 With the exception of those which come from California, there is no change in the price of the table wines The California wines cost about 25 cents more per gallon than previously This ig due to the failure of the grape crop fin that state.
 One of the stores is offering port and sherry wines from 23 to 75 cents per bottle; cIaret from 40 to 95 cents per bottle the 95 cent grade being import ed Virginia Dare wines 25, 50 and 75 cents perbottle- Sweet cider brings 1S cents per gallon
 CITRON, LEMON AND
 ORANGE PEEL Drained citron. 20 cents per pound; orange peel. 15 cents per pound; lemon peel, 15 cents per pound. One Destitute, Another