Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-11-23
THANKSGIVING DAY
SPREAD FURNISHES
SERIOUS PROBLEM
HOUSEWIVES FORCED TO PUR.
CHASE FROM A MAR EFT
PRETTY WELL DEPLETED o.
TURKEYS AND OTHER FOWLS.

The housewife this year is con.
fronted with a difficult question when
oho attempts 10 prepare a big Thanks.
giving spread on Il limited housekeep-
ing account. With the scarcity of tur
keys, geese ducks and chickens, the
market is, OF course, high. Trimmings
fer the fowl are also high, and the
task of preparing a big meal on an
averaged sized purse is a big one.
From the number of reservations
made already in downtown eating
houses it looks as though the major.
ity of tho people of Ottawa are plan
ming to shit the responsi0ility of then
Thanks Swing dinner to the shoulder
Of professional and let him worry
abCut it.
Butchers declare tnat their safes OF
fowls have been very good this year
although roast beef or roast pork will
be the riece de resistance in the
larger number CT homes tomorrow
Turkeys, dressed. are retailing from
70 70 So cents pound, depending on
the shop from where thoy are pur
chased. Geese are selling from 81 to
% cents, tn average being about 80
cents; chickens from 20 to 35 cents,
and ducks frcm % to 25 cents. The
variation in the price OF the fowls is
said to be largely due to the name,
in which they are dressed.
Oysters are selling from 50 to 70
cents today, varying in a large de-
gro on the quality, and crarberries
are retailing higher than most ever
before. Merchants were asking from
- to 70 cents quart for the berries,
Regular Dinner Costs 1888.
Thanksgiving turkey dinner with
out any fancy frills, for six people
was planned today. This dinner cost
d total OF 1888, or $1.64 a plate, with
out any table decorations or expense
connected with the preparing aad
cooking OF the food. However a ten
pound turkey was included in the
menu, and the family, after the frs
serving, will have turkey sandwiches,
turkey hash and possibly turkey soup
i3r follow up meals.
The menu consisted of fruit cock
tail, turkey, oyster dressing, mashed
potatoes, peas, candied sweet pota-
toes cranberry jelly celery, pickles,
olives, lettuce salad, bread and butter,
coffee, mince pie, rasins, nuts, apples
and mints.
The ten-pound turkey was purchas-
ed for $3.50. Fruit for the cocktail
cost so cents, the oyster dressing cost
80 cents, mashed potatoes for six cost
10 cents, a can Of peas cost 10 cents,
candied sweet potatoes were 20 cents,
celery hearts we're 20 cents, cranb rry
jelly was 30 cents, pickles and olives
cost so cent, the lettuce cost 30 cents
and the salad dressing 20 cents, bread
and butter cost 2S cents coffee was
10 cents, mince pie 80 cents, raisins
were Is cents nuts 40 cents, apples
| 25 cents and mints 20 cents Milk
and cream for the meal cost 30 cents,
This menu included just the bare
| food cost, without an allowance for
any kind OF cover expense
Feasts for County Wards.
Prisoners at the county jail will be
given roast pork dinner for their
Thanksgiving spread tomorrow. Jaile1
Stephens stated today that the menu
for their noon meal tomorrow would
consist of hot roast pork, apple sauce
celery, sweet potatoes, mashed pota'
toes, dill pickles and coffee with real
cream and sugar,
County Farm.
At the La Sale county farm a roast
pork menu will also be served to the
inmates. The Thanksgiving dinner
there will he served at II o'clock anc
will consist of roast pork, mashed po
tatoes with gravy, dressing, bread anc
butter, pickles, mince pie and coffee
Several little extra features win alst
be added to this menu as a surprise
for the inmates. ,ts
Detention Home.
Several of the kiddies at the Ii
Sale County Detention Home Wit
have recently come into the institu
ton will have their first taste Of tul
key at their annual Thanksgiving dir
ner tomorrow. Mrs. Carey Fcstel
the nome UldtfOn, mas uelerullIcu Jnd
though the children under her ar
homeless except for an institutio
home, and several of them parentles'
they shall not grow up without kroy
ing the joy of turkey on Thanksgivin
day Consequently she has arrange
to give them a dinner consisting {
Toast turkey, dressing, cranberr
sauce, peas. sweet potatoes. bread al
butter and genuine plum puddin
The word has been passed around III
.t,.e xnal t,,rlrpy sc IN ha eartta