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The election officers will receive votes for the above offices all on the official ballots prepared by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The polls will be opened immediately after the organization of the meeting, and will be kept open until 9 p. m. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this thirteenth day of September, A, 1)., 1911. FRANK D. PEIRCE, HENRY A. C. WOODWARD, W. H. WHITAKER. Selectmen of Lexington. LEXINGTON, Sept. 19, 1911. Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Lexington by posting a duly attested copy of the Warrant in the post offices and other public places in the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the Warrant to every registered voter in the town seven days before the time of said meeting. Attest : WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington. A true copy of the Warrant and the return of the Constable thereon. Attest : CHAS. W. SWAN, Town Clerk. A true copy o the record. Attest : CHAS. W. SWAN, Town Clerk. 89 STATE PRIMARY September 26, 1911 The meeting was called to order at five o'clock p. m. by the Town Clerk, who read the Warrant and the return of the Constable thereon. Abram B. Smith and Frederick G. Jones, having been appointed ballot clerks, were sworn by the Town Clerk, and receipted to him for a package said to contain 1050 Republican ballots, for one said to contain 1050 Democratic ballots, and also for one said to contain 500 Democratic Progressive ballots. The ballot box was shown to be empty, then locked and the key delivered to Constable William B. Foster, and the polls declared open by the chairman of the Board of Selectmen. Samuel B. Bigelow, Allston M. Redman, William J. Riley, G. Irving Tuttle, George L. Pierce, Nathaniel Nunn, William L. Moak- ley and Patrick F. Dacey, having been appointed tellers, were sworn by the Town Clerk. At the close of the polls at nine o'clock 366 Republican ballots and 30 Democratic ballots were taken from the box, making a total of 396 votes, which agreed with the register on the ballot box and also with the number of names checked on the voting lists. No Democratic Progressive ballots were cast. After the Tellers had completed their work the Town Clerk announced the results as follows: REPUBLICAN PARTY GOVERNOR Louis A. Frothingham, two hundred forty-four, Joseph Walker, one hundred, Norman H. White, ten, Blacks, twelve, TO 244 100 10 12