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Show Republicans Set Convention Dates Well-Attended Meeting Is Held Saturday At Milford Wednesday, October 3, at 1 o'clock for the Republican senatorial district convention, and Saturday, October 6, at 10 o'clock for the Republican county coun-ty convention, were decided on Saturday Satur-day evening' at a meeting of Republican Republi-can county and precinct officers, held in the dining- room of the Mil-ford Mil-ford hotel and attended by other prominent members of the party in such number as to carry the conviction convic-tion that Republican adherents in Beaver county are far from being extinct. ex-tinct. Both conventions will be held in Beaver, the county seat city being in line as the place for holding the county convention under a rotation plan long prevailing in Beaver county-State Senator George Jefferson, as Republican county chairman for Beaver county, presided at the meeting, meet-ing, with Mrs. Isabel Gillies as secretary. secre-tary. More than thirty people were present, taxing the seating capacity of the room. It was decided at Saturdays meeting meet-ing to hold a public meeting in connection con-nection with the senatorial convention conven-tion and County Chairman Jefferson was delegated to secure a prominent speaker from upstate to address this meeting, former Mayor Ueorge L.. Murdock of Beaver will be temporary; chairman of the district convention: with County Commissioner F. D. Wil-; lianls of Minersville as vice-chairman.1 The working out of an apportionment of delegates to the senatorial conven-, tion will be attended to and announe-i ed later. I Beaver and Millard counties alone compose the eighth senatorial dis-: trict as now constituted, whereas! Beaver, Iron and Washington coun-j ties composed the old district, with; Mr. Jefferson as holdover senator for. the four-year term now expiring. Under the new setup Beaver county' may expect to be hopelessly outvoted in a convention on a straight county ; vote but, despite this, it was clearly ; the sense of Saturdays meeting that Beaver county should back Mr. Jefferson Jef-ferson for re-nomination as long as there was a chance. The selection of a place for holding the senatorial district dis-trict convention and the public meet-! ing, as planned, was left in the hands ; of a committee of Beaver Repub-i licans as follows: Stan Tattersall,1 George C. Murdock, T. L. Gunn, W. A. Miller and A. R. Hamilton. For the county convention the meeting meet-ing voted representation on a basis of one delegate for each 15 votes or major fraction cast for Republican presidential electors in 1932. On this basis it was figured that rep-resentaton rep-resentaton from the various precints would be as follows: Beaver 29, Minersville Min-ersville 15, Milford 16, Greenville 3 and Adamsville 2. These figures were subject to revision, however. A county coun-ty convention committee was appointed ap-pointed as follows: Thomas L. Gunn,1 Reed Smith, Seldon Mowers, Niels Jensen and Ed Gillies, all of Beaver. Chairman Jefferson, in conclusion,' advised the precinct organizations to nominate candidates for precinct justice and constable at the time of holding the precinct primaries for. election of convention delegates.' County committeemen are also to be elected at those primaries, since election elec-tion of a chairman will take place at tho county convention. ! D |