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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1929)
You Will Save By Watching This Issue Pages of Buying Interest to Women H OU SEW OLD The Shoppers9 Guide The New OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, May 10. 1929 PACES I FRIDAY 1 SIMBB H'Retail Vegetable Prices Kemam mgn Despite in ew And Increased Shipments COMING if Increased shipments of straw berries mark the only change on the fruit row for the week. Prices remain the same, $3.75 whole sale or two boxes for 45 cenU, re tail. Shipments are coming from California. Quality is increasing steadily. The demand for straw berries more than keeps up with the supply. Pineapples, too, are coming In numbers more than sufficient to meet the demand. These are ship---tA. from Cuba. The price Is around 40 cents each. Orange prices continue higher than recently, due to the fag end of the naTel season, and the lull between coming of the Valencias. Grapefruit prices have a tend ency to-become firmer, with $4.50 the wholesale quotation all the way through. The small seedless fruit are selling at five cents each, as the cheapest grapefruit offer leg- BdnOM DROPS OU OF WHEAT Wheat prices have taken the greatest toboggan the last week that has hit the market in more than three years, with white wheat down to 94 cents locally tnd red down to 93 cents. These prices were quoted Thursday. Local millers assert - that- the Consumer price of fre3h veget-j ables Is holding high and steady,! despite larger shipments and in creased returns from the home gardens. As a rule, vegetable pric es begin to tumble at this time of hte year In fact, grocers say most prices should be cheaper More and more and better and now. More and more and better and better vegetables are coming in, and especially attractive in the store window are clean, fresh on ions and radishes grown by Mr. Savage, local gardener. Nothing new was added the past week in the variety of vegetables, but the quality and quantity ever increases.- Asparagus is down to 15 cents a bunch, mostly home grown and fine grass. Artichokes continue to sell at 15 cents. Turnips, good quality and med ium size, are coming In from Cal ifornia and are retailing at 10 cents a bunch. The first water cress, used large ly for salads, was brought to the legislation now occupying nation al attention may have something to do with the bull market which is crowding wheat to rock bottom prices. A big carry-over from last year is also partly responsible, as is the prospects for a bumper crop again this year. The freeze, so far as eastern, growers are con cerned, did not hit the crop as hard as at first believed. market the latter part of the week and is selling at 10 cents a bunch. Hot house tomatoes, grown in the Chase gardens at Eugene, are offered at 45 cents a pound. To matoes are way up on the pocket book, largely because they are hard to get Wholesale quotations on those from the south have reached $$.50. . A good grade of beets, though not large, sells at 10 cents a bunch in the stores. Carrots, like the! beets shipped in from the south, sell at the same price. New peas are offered at two pounds for 25 cents and the price the store of new potatoes contin ues at three pounds for 25 cents. New crop spinach 1s rolling from Vancouver, the frist of the tender green leaves being received local stores yesterday. The price is two pounds for 15 cents. Onions are offered in several varieties, ranging from the new home-grown ones to the silver skin or sweet from Texas. Hqme-grown onions sell at 10 cents a bnnch, and green onions shipped In from other patches retail at five cents a bunch. The silver skin, or sweet onion, sella at three pounds for 20 cents and the old dry onions may be bought at the rate of three pound for 15 cents. Celery prices ar up, due large, ly to the fag end of the season and the consequent scarcity. Store stalk, and as high as 20 cents, prices range around IS 'cents a Cauliflower has about reached the end of the season, also, and is selling higher, at 20 cents. The first of the California later crop is expected In Salem shortly. Garlic is up, at 40 cents, whole sale, though some of the stores are selling It as low as 35 cents. Lettuce runs generally fine, with the heads solid In almost any Is one seeks them. The prices range, with a medium-size head obtainable for 10 cents and the larger at two for 25 cents. Cucumbers are down slightly, grocers selling the long ones at 15 cents each. Cabbage la selling at seven cents a pound, retail. Local radishes eost 10 cents a bunch and the small round red ones at three bunches tor 10 cents. Rhubarb, large healthy stalks, are marked four pounds for 25 cents. Rhubarb' offered now is practically all Sslem-grown. Parsley, not greatly in demand, sells at five cents a bunch. The quality is all that could be desired. A few yams, better known as sweet potatoes, are offered. Price now Is two pounds for 25 cents. MAY 27 HELD LAST DATE FOR APPEAL In case W. M. Davis of Portland appeals from the ballot title for the proposed referendum measure attacking the 1929 legislative act creating two additional circuit judgeships in Multnomah county, it will be necessary to file such appeal by May 27, according to announcement made by the secre tary of state here today. The ballot title which was com pleted by the attorney general to day reads: "Purpose To provide for two additional judges of the circuit court of the state of Oregon for the fourth judicial district, com prising Multnomah county." Following receipt of the appeal petition it would be necessary for the supreme court to hear the ar. guments of attorneys, and write its decision. This probably could not be done until sometime in June or subsequent to the date when the completed referendum petitions must be filed in the etate department. The attorney general, in a re cent opinion, held that the com.' pleted referendum petitions must be filed by June 4, In case the measure is to be referred to the voters at the general election in November, 1930. Mr. Davis is president of the Oregon state bar, association. Read the Classified Ads. . IPS 2 I On or about June 1st. A store built on the modern plan of merchandising Serve yourself and Save at LF WILLIAMS SE SERVICE STOR One of a chain of Oregon Stores Bend Eugene Corvallis The Dalles Salem Watch this paper for further announcements Th Neraur,s most famous prodttS Folks around the table all smile, good cheer rules... when that GOOD coffee is poured. Order from jfour Qroceri l Bldg. . AtCom'l. Fran Iimfactairer and (Grower to consumer through these two stores a straight line to better and more economical foods for our thousands of customers. You too, Mrs. Housewife, may enjoy the advantages of these daily savings. One or the other of these stores, or both stores for that matter, will give you the Service that everyone feels that they are justly entitled to. S IP IE FRIDAY M D SATURDAY For Agar Agar Users Whole Selected Clean Put up in 1-lb. bundles per pound bundle SPECIAL SPECIAL (Limit ef 2 lbs. per customer) The Best Special in this Issue Court & High Hotel Senator Bldg. Tel. 233 LIBBY'S FANCY Solid Pack Tomatoes 3 cans 52c Jibby's Silver Dal Standard Tomatoes S Large Cans 35c Libby's Silver Dale Tomatoes . No. 1 Cans 25c UTANAH PEAS Ungraded Garden Run 2 cans 25c FANCY IOWA CORN 2 cans 25c LIBBY'S MILK 3 Tall Cans 25c LIBBY'S Pork & Beans Scans 29c Red Crown Sandwich SPREAD 2 cans 28c LUNCHEON MEAT V4 Size Cans 6 cans 25c SCHILLING'S COFFEE 1 Lb. Cans 49c GOLDEN WEST COFFEE 1-Lb. Cans 49c KELLOGG'S Corn Flakes 4 pltgs. 33c Post Toasties 4 pkgs. 33c , SWANS DOWN Cake Flour Large Size Pkg. 35c Snowdrift 4 lb. can 89c Wesson Oil quart can 49c OHIO RED LAKE Matches 16 cubes in Boxes 6 for 2Cc Scott Tissue PAPER 1000 Sheets to Roll 3 rolls 25c ELDORADO Crepe Paper 4 rolls 27c Waldorf PAPER ' 3rdI!s2G Fresh Garden Vegetables and Fruits Green Peas. String Beans, Garden Spinash Young, tender Aspara gus, Hot House Cucumbers Hot House Ripe Tomatoes Iceberg Lettuce Young Carrots Cabbage, Cauliflower Turnips, Radishes Green Onions, Celery Bermuda Onions Artichokes New Potatoes You also will find a bet ter selection of Fresh Fruits this week Strawberries are better and more plentiful. Fresh Hawaiian Pine apples are exceptional ly nice right now. We have nice, displays of these at both Busicks Stores. UMECO Margarine Fresh and as Good as the Best 2 Rounds 29c PURE CANE SUGAR Packed in New Cloth Sacks 25 Lbs. Net $1.33 SWANSDOWN Cake Flour 35c There is Real Quality put into BUSICK'S BREAD Made in our own Electric Oven 2 Large Loaves 25c 3 Smaller Loaves 25c CAMP FIRE Marsh mallows They're Fresh and Fluffy Large Pkg. 23c Small Pkg . lb LIBBY'S DELUX Peaches Large Halves Rip and Delicious 2 Large Cans 48c 1 -'