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Show Republican County Ticket Named at Springville Lclii Get; Treasurer, American Fork Sherrif and Pleasant Grove Auditor. With 500 delegates present at the Republican county convention at Springville Wednesday the task ot selecting a strong ticket got underway under-way shortly after noon, the morning ! session being devoted to the keynote address and talks by state candidates. candi-dates. One of the strongest tickets placed in the field for many years was named and these nominees were pledged to support an outstanding platform which calls for the lull allocation of $25 for each school child and the reduction of property taxes. Everyone of the large towns of the county secured nominations on the ticket. American Fork landed McNeil Mc-Neil for sheriff, Pleasant Grove I .Tense for auditor and Lehi Fowler Jense for auditor and Lehi Fowiei for treasurer. In addition Mrs. R. L. Ashby, American Fork and H. W. Jacobs, Pleasant Grove, received nominations as state representatives. The nominations in order follows: Legislative State senator, A. V. Watkins of Orem and John E. Booth of Spanish Fork; representatives, Mrs. R. L. Ashby, American Fork; Charles E. Hawkins, Benjamin; Angus An-gus G. Taylor, Salem; H. W. Jacobs, Pleasant Grove, and Swen O. Nielsen, Niel-sen, Provo. County commissioner (four year term) Jesse N. Ellertson, Provo; (two year term) Neil Dahle of. Spanish Fork; clerk, Frank M. Salisbury Salis-bury Springville; auditor, Wesley j Jense, Pleasant Grove; attorney, Aj Sherman Christensen, Provo; asses- ; sor, Braxton Barnett, Payson; treas-, urer, Daryl Fowler, Lehi; surveyor,; Hugo M. Price, Provo; sheriff, H. E. McNeil, American Fork; recorder, 1 Ralph Elliot, Provo. The contest for county sheriff developed de-veloped the most excitement of the day. Three ballots were necessary before McNeil won over former Sher- iff J. D. Boyd of Provo. On the nrst ballot McNeil received 131 votes, . Boyd 130 1-2, Clinton Roberts, San-taquin, San-taquin, 78 1-2, and Charles H. White of Payson, 50. On the second ballot bal-lot McNeil increased his total to 178 1-2 votes and Boyd received 128 1-2. Roberts 50 and Whp 29. On the final ballot several smaller communities com-munities of the county switched to the support of McNeil and he went over with a vote of 256 to Boyd's 120 and Roberts' 9. . Following the first ballot for state representatives, in which all candidates candi-dates were so closely bunched none had sufficient votes to be nominated, a motion to nominate the first five high was passed. For state senators Watkins and Booth won out over Charles E. Haw- kins of Benjamin on the first ballot by the following count: Watkins, 327 1-2; Booth, 253 1-2; Hawkins, 197. Hawkins was nominated for state representative, winning by the largest vote of the group. The battle for recorder was short, with Elliott winning out on the first ballot mainly due to the fact that the Provo delegation of 125 votes was solidly behind him. Elliott was opposed op-posed by Warren V. Clark of Alpine and the votes on the first ballot were: Elliott, 244; Clark, 156. I. E. Brockbank of Provo, was named permanent chairman at the morning session, and secured the appointment ap-pointment of committeeman from Utah county over B. P. Thomas of Spanish Fork, with Mrs. Marie Hed-quist Hed-quist Homer of Provo being named state committeewoman over Mrs. A. C. Paxman of Provo. Mrs. Sadie Bromley of American Fork was 110111- 1,,,4- ,;nvonr in favnr nf Ml'S lllLU-CU UUt wiumibn m - Homer. Leading Republicans of the state, including Don B. Collon, nominee for United States senator; Frederick C. Loofbourow, nominee for congress from the Second congressional district; dis-trict; Chief Justice Daniel N. Straup and Allan S. Tingcy, state chairman, were speakers at the morning session. ses-sion. After the keynote was given by A. V. Watkins, temporary chairman, chair-man, Mrs. Lottie W. Worthen of Provo, vice chairman, spoke briefly. Mayor G. A. Anderson of Springville welcomed the delegates. the residents of the valley saw the snowy peaks of Timp protruding through the clouds. Coats and winter win-ter anparel were brought forth and flannel "nighties" came into popularity popu-larity overnight. The storm which consis'ed mainly of a drizzling rain settled the du;t clouds which had hung over the valley. The dust and grit deposited in homes while the dust clouds swirled about the city were the despair of housewives and storekeepers, storekeep-ers, who welcomed the rain. |