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The checklist's two thin-spot classes were tested by name, and both belong to this town's record — as absences with reasons. The teacher's-life-savings class — the modest estate left whole to a school or library, the pattern by which small towns usually get their one named benefactor — returns no Lakeville instance in any carrier reached: no teacher, clerk or farmer of this township is recorded leaving a life's savings to an institution; the banked donations article's closing clause ("smaller giving of record, and nothing else found") is hereby upgraded from a clause to a tested class, with the obituary and probate record named as the settler that governs it and was not read entire. The institutions-no-patron-built class returns the stronger finding: nearly every institution this town holds was built without a patron — the school by the corporation, the library as a branch of a county system (opened December 1990 inside the high school, on the system's own history), the churches by subscription of their own members, the fire territory by interlocal agreement, the water tower by grant, bond and ARPA money that the donations article already separates from giving. The thinness is therefore structural, not a failure of generosity the record can see: a farm township's institutions are tax-and-subscription builds, and its one patron-scale giver gave a building the public no longer needed. Both classes print at that strength.