Arizona republican., 1907-02-13
OF LOCAL INTEREST

SALE OF A HOME-Alex Rhein-
 stein yesterday sold his handsome home on North Second avenue to Per
 ry Sears who will shortly occupy it. The consideration was $4000.
 PRESCOTT VIsITOR-I.. w. Mar tin. manager of the grocery department of the Bashford-Burmister Co. of Prescott. spent yesterday in Phoenix.
 A SUBURBAN HoME-Mr. Emery yesterday moved his family to his new home recently purchased, a half mile east of the Indian school He bought ten acre tract of Della Haynes for S250O The property is improved and has upon it a good four room adobe house.
 GONE FOR THE SUMMER-Mrs. Angeline Schwartz will leave in a few days for Los Angeles, where she will remain until after the Fiesta de las Flores, which will begin on the first of May. Afterwards she will continue her journey to the puget sound coun- try where she will visit with relatives and friends during the coming summer
 CAME TO LOCATE-J. B. Smiley of Chicago. who has been representing the Callahan Lawbook company for a long time. is a recent arrival in the city. He is a sufferer of asthma and came here for the purpose of remain ing permanently if the climate agrees with him. So far he is Very mucp pleased with Phoenix and has every reason to hope that he will remain in good health and contentment.
 cHITTENTON HOME SUBScRlP- TON. The annual subscription list for the maintainance of the Crittenton Home is being circulated. This is anything but a greatly sought honor the passing of this list among the peo- ple-but the doors of this institution. which is doing SD much good, must be kept open. and no doubt the public will do all it can to make the task a pleasant duty for the seeker after donations
 THE BIG SHOW ToNIGHT-China Dick. mayor of Chinatown, gives mo- tice that tonight will be the big day at his place of business. the corner store in Chinatown. He has it prop erly decorated and tonight will shoot more fire crackers than some people ever saw before. The powder burning will begin at o'clock this evening and the whole world is cordially invited to be present and enjoy the sport
 CHINESE NEW YEARS-Chinese new years. the celebration of which is now properly opened up, will last for several days. possibly a couple of weeks An effort was made to find out some of the reasons for the varia- bleness of these oriental festivals. which are as hard to keep track of as some of the religious festivals of the Christian churches It is explained that the length of the new year cele- bration depends somewhat by the To- cal sentiment of the Chinese. They will hold a meeting in two or three days and decide how long they will celebrate and which days of the cele~ bration will be the real big ones when powder is burned regardless. It is q source Of wOnderment to many that no one can tell when new years comes un- til it gets here. It is owing to the diff ference between the Chinese and the European and American methods of counting time. The Chinese calendar months never exceed thirty days and some of them are twenty-nine or less, and some years they have thirteen in the year and some years only twelve. According to the calen- dar in use In this country there is also some trouble in evening things up so that a leap year is necessary once in a while. The Chinese seem to leave this matter to a board of official calendar makers who publish a book each year telling the people how long the next year Is to be. A well known China man said last night that last year con- tained thirteen months and this year only twelve months. Asked how many months there would be next year he said he could not tell yet as the book due to arrive from China has not yet put in an appearance. If it gets lost in transit the chances are there won't be any next year.