Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-23
ARE DOWN
ON KING STREET
Marketeers' Eggs as Low as 65
Cents a Dozen, With Butter
Generally at 6O Cents.

Somebody or something has put the
fear of n wrath To come in the hearts Of
the King street curb marketeers. There
isn't any doubt about it. No greater evil
dence is needed than the fact that this
morning you could buy eggs from them
as low as is cents n dozen, which made
YOU wonder where, oh where, is that
proud boast of the bod buccaneers of our
rocal Spanish Main that they would have
dollar eggs, ut first by Christmas, and
then later on before the hens started their
spring laying.
Who knows where the reason for this
hesp Is it fear of the Food Administration
taking n hand against the Elder States
men IN fixing prices: is IT the inroadS the
stores and markethouscs have made land
believe us. they have been considerai le),
or can it be possible that Every Evening 5
campaign against hing streets extortIons
has been having its results? little OF
each we think, although Every Evening,
like John Paul Jones, hasn't yet begun TO
fight, because there is plenty Of room for
price improvement i'll Hing street yet.
Honestly. one doesn't know quito what
10 make of the Elder Statesmen these
days. Something appears TO have hap
pcned to them. Times were when every
last farmer-marketccr on the curb was
charging the same as his fellows They
showed the same sort Of unanimity aS
two old maids would show over proposals
of marriage from two perfectly eligible
bachelors.
IFS DIFFERENT
But nowadays it's different This morn
ing most Of tho markctccrs were asking
20 cents a dozen for eggs, drop Of five
cents from last week ; general price, but
there were Others who were selling at %
cents and pumbcr who split the dif-
ference and made il 81 or Us.
Butter also had range. Most of 1t was
selling at 60 cents, but there were q num-
Der OF marketeers who would let YOU have
it at So
And so YOU sec that the housewife is
coming into her own again. II she is
careful and doesn't mind little extra
time spent in a good cause, and goes TO
the stores when she finds the markctecrs
are trying to grab off too much profit,
Wilmington viii strange the curb market
into common decency vet
Fowls were scarce all along the curb
due, Of course, 10 the anti-killing order of
the Food Administration. In the market
houses turkeys were j5 to 90 cents q
pound chickens "A to so cents, ducks 10
Out on the stands these prices were up TO
cents pound because of the unit selling
propensity of the farmer.
The usual winter vegetables were plen-
tiful, and among the fruits strawberries
made their appearance at TO cents box.
Below is todays price list:
Onions, 10 TO IS cents quart; white
potatoes. Is cents a quarter peck, IS
cents to 81 basket, 81 so to 81 bushel; !;
sweets, Is cents quarter; turnlps, 10
cents a quarter peck; eranberries, 20
cents q quart chickens, ~ to 81 cents
q pound dressed, but not drawn: turkeys,
90 cents a pound; fresh country eggs,
90 to 75 cents dozen; apples, Is to 20
cents u quarter peck; peppers, ID cents
dozen; cauliflower, 25 to so cents a head
cabbage, ) cents q pound or to Is cents
a head, celery, ), s and 10 cents a stalk;
beets, d to 10 cents bunch; sauer kraut,
l. to Is cents a quart; lettuce, 10 to 20
cents head; butter, 60 cents a pound
on curb; parsnips, 5 cents bunch;
straw berries, 90 cents a box