Evening star., 1926-11-19
MARKET DISPAYiNG
THANKSGIVING FOODS
Choice Fowl and "Fixin's" Ready
for Feast Day Table.
Prices Average.

| Thanksgiving season finds Center
Market well stocked with birds. rab-
bits. cranberries, pumpkins, squash,
nuts and all things that go to make
up perfect holiday feasts. Prices gen.
orally are average for this season, but
peak levels. Turkeys only are scarce
among the Thanksgiving specialties.
but are retailing at the steady price
of so cents a pound, dressed.
/ The sensation of the week Is an
other rise in the price of top-grade
eggs, which last week was predicted
| in this column, hennery eggs. the
| finest offerings, now bringing Is and
tofore this Fall Merchants say this
grade of eggs are especially scarce.
Candled eggs and commons are more
plentiful but little cheaper.
Butter remains at so and IS cents
| for one pound prints Of creamery
brands, with country butter at slight
ly lower levels at most stands. Cream
is 18 cents a half pint and double
or whipping cream, 38 cents a half
pint. Milk at Center Market Is Is
cents a quart.
Rabbits Plentiful
American mild cheese is 40 cents a
pound; medium sharp and sharp
domestic cheeses are As cents a pound
and imported brands generally are
70 to 80 cents.
Rabbits, hanging in great clusters
in many stands, are offered at so
cents each, weighing about one and
a half pounds. Frying, baking
and broiling chickens are As cents
pound dressed and stewing
chickens are 40, capUns 60. and keats
are offered at 81 each.
Pumpkins in varying sizes are five
cents a pound, as are Hubbard
squashes. which are especially fine
for baking. Summer squash now sells
for 20 cents a pound, which is double
the recent price. Small yellow squash
Is 10 cents a pound.
Cranberries, available in large quan-
titles Of fine quality, are 20 cents a
pound. Chestnuts are 25 cents
pound; Brazils, 35; filberts, 40; al
monds, 45; walnuts, so, and pecans,
65.
Sickel pears are available in huge
quantities at 35 cents for boxes Of
two dozen and eating pears are four
for 25 cents or rs cents a dozen.
Grapes are 20 cents pound for To-
kays, 25 cents a pound for Malagas
and 25 cents two-quart basket for
Delawares. Eating apples generally
are five cents each, with cooking va
rieties at three pounds for rs cents.
Tomatoes Costly.
Hothouse tomatoes of very choice
appearance, small, are offered at so
cents pound and others are rs cents
a pound.
Irish potatoes are six pounds for
25 cents and sweets are four pounds
for Is cents.
Brussels sprouts are 35 cents box
of one and a half pounds; celery is
20 and 25 cents a bunch; lettuce is
Is and 20 cents a head: peas are %
cents a pound and lima beans, now
virtually gone from the market, are
Is cents a pound. Mushrooms are plen-
tiful at SO cents a pound.
Onions are 5, 8 and 10 cents each
for Spanish, three pounds for 25 cents
or yellow cookers and % cents a quart
for white onions. Cauliflower is 20
to 35 cents a head.
Oranges are so cents to 81 for
various sizes and lemons are con-
sistently 80 cents a dozen.
fI0O CdDDdSo anu WIllIG CctUUdSe
both are offered at five cents pound.
Chinese celery cabbage is rs cents
head and beets and carrots are
10 cents a pound, French endives are
SO cents a pound.
Meat prices have shifted a bit down
ward in pork lines. Smoked ham has
dropped two cents retail, bringing
quotations to 3S cents a pound and
bacon Of top grade is down about
five cents, now selling at 40 a pound.
Other meat quotations are sliced
boiled ham, 80 cents a pound; pork
sausage, 3S cents; pork chops, 45;
spare ribs, 25; round steak, 35 and
40; sirloin, so; porterhouse, co. rump
roast, 35; shoulder clod, 80 and IS;
chuck, 35; beef rib roast, 80; outlets,
so, and beef liver, 20.