Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — Bob Hopkins Here for a Short Visit at Old Home. [ARTICLE]

Bob Hopkins Here for a Short Visit at Old Home.

“Bob” Hopkins dropped into the Republican office this Saturday afternooTb and we knew him on sight. If he hadn’t taken his hat off and exhibited a spot where the hair is getting thin we would have thought him just as young as he was some ten years ago when he left Indiana and went west to look for fame and fortune. He looks like a western man of business, and judged by the responsibility given him by the city of Spokane, Wash., he has made good and is climbing the ladder in steady fashion, and, having known something about him almost aU his life, we don’t expect that his feet will slip. x “Bob” is a son of Caleb Hopkins, and his full name is Robert A. Hopkins. He graduated from the Rensselaer high school in the early nineties and taught school a few years. Then he went west and this is his first visit back to the old home -for ten years. He drove out to the old home near Surrey this afternoon, where he expected to take off his hat and dwell in silent reverence for a few moments, thinking of mother and all the days of happy youth. Bob will be in charge cf the Spokane exhibit at the Chicago apple show and at the conslucion of the show will spend a day or two with his father at Delphi and then go to his western home to take up the white man’s burden and plan for the continued happiness of a® wife and little daughter that have been added to his assets since he left Rensselaer.