The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-22
From Mondays Daily.


Leonard Shevlin of Minneapolis, and it
is of unusual interest in Mankato
where both have numerous friends.
Miss Sherley has many friends here,
having once made an extended visit in
Mankato as a guest of her aunt, Mrs.
w. l.. HiXon of Baker avenue. Mr..
Shevlin. too, has many personal friends
here, and because of his fame as a
football star is known to nearly every
one. He is son of wealthy lum-
herman of Minneapolis.
1t has been reported many times
that these interesting young people
were engaged but not until Saturday
was any report confirmed. The Min
neapolis Tribune yesterday published
pictures of Miss Sherley and Mr. Snev-
lin together with the following story
Romance of the modern story book
kind and dealing with well known peo-
pie, eliminated yesterday in the an
nouncement made in Louisville, Ky,
of the engagement of Miss Elizabeth
Sherley of that city, to Thomas Leon
ard Shevlin of Minneapolis, son of L.
H. Shevln, and football hero of Yale
university. The wedding, which will
be a quiet affair, will take place in
February at tine home of Mrs. Bran
min Sherley of Louisville.
Tom" Shevlin" star tackle and end
of the Blue eleven for several years,
met Miss Sherley while he was attend
ing Yale. She was just budding into
womanhood when she attended a
Junior 'prom" at New Haven. 1t is
related that their meeting was a case
of the old tale of love at first sight.
Shortly afterward an announcement
was made by Mrs. Sherley that the
engagement had been broken off OH
account of the extreme youth of her
daughter. Since then Miss Sherley has
spent much of her time abroad and
is said to have had many suitors at
her feet, rumor even mentioning the
names of several foreign noblemen in
connection with reported engage
ment, but none of these rumors were
ever verified.
Miss Sherley is Kentucky beauty,
her reputation for feminine loneliness
being almost International. On her
fathers side she comes from long
line of prominent Kentuckians, Con-
gresham Sherley, representing the
Louisville district in congress, being
a cousin on her fathers side. Her
mother was Miss Macdonald, a
daughter of a prominent Scotch fam
lily, which has been among the fore
most in Louisville affairs for half a
century.
Mrs. Sherley and all her sisters have
regulations for their beauty, but it is
said that Miss Sherley surpasses them.
She was the victim of an automo-
bile accident last May, which resulted
seriously, nearly every one of the
party being injured. Miss Sherley's
jaw was broken, but she completely
recovered without suffering any ill eff
fects afterward.
Tom" Shevlin is in Chicago at pres.
ent but is expected to return to Min
neapolis tomorrow. His mother, Mrs
T. H. Shevlin, last night added her
confirmation to the announcement of
the engagement.
"You can say about the engage
ment all right, she said, but l think
it is going too fast to tell when the
wedding will be-"
tom" Shevlin lives with his parents
at l29 Oak Grove street, Minneapolis.
He is engaged i'll the lumber business
with his father.
Harmonic Society Entertainment.
Arrangements have been made for
the entertainment of the Harmonic So
ciety at the home of Mrs. John Muir
ply, los South Fourth street, assisted
by Mrs. Albert Zimmerman, Mrs
Charles L. Taylor, Mrs. Herman Wagon
and Mrs. Robert Jache, Wednesday af-
ternoon and evening.
A special invitation is extended to
gentlemen and friends to attend and
partake of six o'clock supper with
the society. Five hundred will be play
ed by all those wishing to do so, and
it is the desire of the society that not
only members but all those wishing to
spend social evening should attend
Formal Opening of K. of C. Hall.
Invitations are ont for tho fret an
nual ball and formal apening of the
X. of c.. hall to be given by Nicolet
Council No. 90l, knights of Columbus,
on Monday evening January 25. Dane
ing will begin at nine o'clock with
music by Lamm's full orchestra The
affair promises to be one of the i'm.
portant social events of the season.
Il 4. !.
Supper to be Served.
The third division of the Ladies' Aid
society of the Presbyterian church will
give supper on Wednesday evening at
the church, beginning at $3.50 p. IN.
The ladies are preparing an especially
attractive menu which will be ably
served by the gentlemen of the di-
vision, and a large attendance is hoped
in order to decide whether the gentle
men can do their part as well as the
ladies'.
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