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Show REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AT PAY-SON The Republican county convention conven-tion will be held at Payson, Saturday, Satur-day, September 22, at 10 o'clock a. m., according to a decision made at a meeting of the county central conimitec and nominees for state and judicial offices, held in the Fourth district court room Monday ! evening. E. H. Street, county chairman, presided at the meetnig and set forth its object. It was decided that the convention apportionment should be on the basis of one delegate dele-gate for each 25 votes cast for the Hon. Reed Smoot. Upon this basis the convention will be comprised of 303 delegates. Mrs. Keeler Resigns The convention will nominate one four-year term county commissioner, commission-er, one two-year term commissioner, one county attorney, one state senator sena-tor to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator LeRoy Dixon, and four state representatives to the state legislature. Primaries for ibe purpose of electing elect-ing delegates to the county convention conven-tion will be held in the respective districts and precincts not later than September 15, it was decided. Mrs. Martha A. Keeler," county vice chairman in charge of the county women's organizations, resigned. re-signed. The vacancy was filled by Mrs. Susa W. Poulton of Provo. Bamberger Present Ernest Bamberger, nominee for i U. S. senator, and Mrs. Jesse F. Cannon, state vice chairman of the Hoover-for-President organization, were in attendance. Mr. Bamberger Bamberg-er spoke briefly. He endorsed the Republican state and national platforms, plat-forms, and stated that he favored consistent farm relief and also enforcement en-forcement of the eighteenth amendment. amend-ment. Mrs. Cannon urged the necessity of perfecting a complete women's organization in the county, with precinct and district chair-women, and also proper committees in each precinct. |