Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1913 — Vernon Hopkins Now a Member Of the Musical Leases Company. [ARTICLE]

Vernon Hopkins Now a Member Of the Musical Leases Company.

Vernon Hopkins is home to remain until after Christmas, when he will again, join the Musical Leases, an entertainment company with which he has been playing for some time. The company carries about 60 people, all good musicians, and 35 of them soloists of ability. They play such cities as Indianapolis, Logansport Marlon and Muncie. The instruments used are chimes, organ chimes, cathedral chimes, aluminum bars, lyric harps and ziliphones. Vern has a good position and gets a good salary. On Thanksgiving day he was siezed with a ?back to the gridiron” spirit after more than seven years out of the game, and played left tackle for the famous Wabash athletic team. His team suffered defeat by the score of 6 to 3. Young America, with a largely hired team, defeated them. Vern is still carrying a scar on the side of his face as a recollection of the game.