The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-01-20
MARKET SUMMARY
Wednesday. January q .l92l

Wednesday. January 10 1921 -
Guthrie has some ihirty-fve place.
whore groceries are sold and severa
wholesale houses as source Of sup
ply for The retailer the main ih,
stores whore ioodsluif is sold ars
clean. sanitary aud up,o-daie. an,
each merchant is striving to give his
customers The best service and he
mos, for their money that he can
The advertisers on this page Of the
Daily Leader cut prices TO TIE bone
in some instances are taking q loss.
Food consumers who consult the ads
on this paige are taking nu ehances
but can rest assured Of geiting The
most for their money.
The consunne ruAlic Is very little
interested or concerned with qucs-
tions that relate 10 the wholesaler Ii
matters little TO the public what prob
lens of the manufacturers or the
problems OF the Wholesalers and ioh-
bers may he--the public is concerned
only with the issue as & directly af
fects the consumer at the final point
of distribution namely the retailer.
How 10 be best served and at the
best prices is, however, OF vital in
terest to the consumer Here YOU
have the point Of contact. The only
way to ge- under the Skin Of the pub
lie is to show Ny forccful advertising
the value OF the retail grocer to the
community in other words popular
ize the retailer and gige the public
the righ impression Of him.
The most important thing for az
concerned would be movement snip
porting the retail grocer and placing
him on the proper footing With the
public.
Some radical movement among re-
,ailers to meet the demands Of lhel
public should be instituted as an in.
troduciory to the camgaign.
There are several WAYS in which
the retailer might improve both his
store ana his service with lit'le added
expense. The average retail grocer
lacks system. How many grocery
stores are conducted on modern sani
tary lines? Are they 50 arranged as
to facilitate the work of the clerk and
the needs OF the customer? such al
grocery IS an exception to the rule.
This. then, should be the first step;
10 instrucs the retail grover in how tol
arrange ana conduct his store on
modern sanitary lines. There is room
for grea; Improvement and a con
certed movement in this direction
should accomplish much.
During the past week the local
market has changed but little Butter
and eggs are still keeping up to the
top prices, with no hopes Of gongl
lower during the next six weeks.
In the meat line fancy hams are
selling at 33 cents the pound Fancy
bacon so cents pound: hog lard l5l
cents a pound. dressed hens S5 cents
a pound; dressed turkeys As cents a
pound The market is we'll supplied
with rabbits which sell when dressed |
two for 35 cents.
A good assortment Of vegetables F,
is on the market. Turn;ps Is cents
a bunch Irish c'otatoes $3.50 per
bushel; sweet potatoes $3.50 perl
bushel cabbage cents pound /
cauliflower 30 cents each; head let
tuce 80 cents each; celery 20 cents
a bunch; string beans 50 cents a
pound: cooking apples 50 cents a
peck; eating apples so to so cents ,
the dozen; oranges 40 and As cents
the dozen frape-fruit 10 cents each;
rheuharb 2n cents the round. green
onions 10 cents bunch; Hubbard
squash, l9 cents each; beets 10 cents
bunch; radishss 10 cents bunch; Man (,
go peppers So cents the pound: TO-
matoes so cents tha. pound.
Fresh and candied eggs IS cents a
dozen: country butter SO cents the
pound; creamery butter SIS cents the
pound. Flour. which a few weeks
ago. sold at $340 and S3.a5 for a
4S-pound sack. has declined in price
Sun Gold flour, iSrlound sack, is now
selling at S2.75: Wellington Best So
40: Jack Frost, s2.70.
In some of the ads on this page
quotations. can be found somewhat