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Representative in the General Court, Twenty-ninth Middlesex Dis-
<br />trict, County Commissioner, Register of Deeds and Clerk of Courts.
<br />The election officers will receive votes for the above offices all on
<br />the official ballot prepared by the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
<br />The polls will be opened immediately after the organization of
<br />the meeting, and will be kept open until 4 o'clock p. m., and as
<br />much longer as the meeting may direct, not to extend beyond sunset.
<br />Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your
<br />doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said
<br />meeting.
<br />Given under our hands at Lexington, this twenty-first day of
<br />October, A. D., 1911.
<br />FRANK D. PEIRCE,
<br />HENRY A. C. WOODWARD,
<br />WILLIAM H. WHITAKER,
<br />Selectmen of Lexington.
<br />LEXINGTON, November lst, 1911.
<br />Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified the inhabitants
<br />of the town of Lexington by posting a duly attested copy of the
<br />Warrant in the post offices and other public places in the town and
<br />by mailing a duly attested copy of the Warrant to every registered
<br />voter in the town seven days before the time of said meeting.
<br />Attest : WILLIAM B. FOSTER,
<br />Constable of Lexington.
<br />A true copy of the Warrant, and the return of the Constable.
<br />Attest; CHAS. W. SWAN,
<br />Town Clerk.
<br />STATE ELECTION NOVEMBER 7, 1911
<br />The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk at six o'clock
<br />a. m., who read the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon.
<br />Abram B. Smith and Frederick G. Jones having been appointed
<br />Ballot Clerks, were sworn by the Town Clerk and receipted to him
<br />for a package said to contain 1300 official ballots.
<br />George L. Peirce and Charles G. Kauffman having been appointed
<br />Deputy Ballot Clerks, were sworn by the Town Clerk. The ballot
<br />box was shown to be empty, then locked and the key given to
<br />Constable William B. Foster, and the polls declared open.
<br />Samuel B. Bigelow, Allston M. Redman, Fred J. Spencer,
<br />Nathaniel Nunn, G. Irving Tuttle, William J. Riley, John Moakley
<br />and Patrick F. Dacey, having been appointed Tellers, were sworn
<br />by the Clerk.
<br />At 10.00 o'clock, by agreement of the Selectmen and Town Clerk,
<br />the ballot box was opened and 350 ballots taken therefrom. At 2.15
<br />o'clock, 250 ballots were taken from the box. At 3.45 o'clock, on
<br />motion of William C. Stickel, the meeting voted to keep the polls
<br />open until 4.30 o'clock. At 4.00 o'clock, 100 ballots were taken
<br />from the box, and at the close of the polls 51 ballots were taken out,
<br />making a total of 751 ballots, which amount agreed with the register
<br />on the box and also with the number of names checked on the vot-
<br />ing lists used by the Selectmen and Ballot Clerks.
<br />After the counting of the votes had been finished by the Tellers,
<br />the Town Clerk announced the result as follows :
<br />FOR GOVERNOR
<br />James F. Carey of Haverhill, seven,
<br />Eugene N. Foss of Boston, (Dem.) one hundred ninety-six,
<br />Eugene N. Foss of Boston, (Dem. Frog.) forty-four,
<br />7
<br />196
<br />44
<br />Louis A.Frothinghamof Boston, (Rep.) four hundred seventy nine, 479
<br />84
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