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1894 Thomas Heraty's Diary
| Date | Day | Entry |
| Jan. 1 | Mon | No mass at Mitchell. Priest sick. Young people went to New Cassell to O'Brien's Ball. |
| Jan. 3 | Wed | Wm. Daley here all day with the boys. Sidney Andrews, formerly of Mitchell, died at Spencer, ae. 84 years. One of the old settlers of Mitchell, having come here in 1848. Buried at Mt. Pleasant. |
| Jan. 2 | Tue | Drove to Tom Burke's. Paid taxes. $32.54. |
| Jan. 6 | Sat | Holy Day. Mrs. C.W. Humphrey had a paralytic stroke. |
| Jan. 7 | Sun | Baby girl born to Ed Burke's. Mrs. Humphrey died, ae. 65 years. Settled in Mitchell in 1850. |
| Jan. 9 | Tue | G. Buchen Cascade, died, ae. 47 years. The Long - Cooney wedding at Cascade. Mrs. Humphrey buried. |
| Jan. 13 | Sat | The Biography book came this a.m. |
| Jan. 20 | Sat | Old Mrs. Murray of Dundee, Pete's mother, died this morning 2 a.m. |
| Jan. 21 | Sun | Went to Slattery's in p.m. Stayed till 9 p.m. |
| Jan. 22 | Mon | Requiem mass at Dundee for Mrs. Murray. Buried Mitchell. |
| Jan. 24 | Wed | Mike Slattery hauling logs to mill. Heard of George Thackeray's death. |
| Jan. 27 | Sat | John Dawson died at his home in Chicago today. |
| Jan. 28 | Sun | Called out of bed at 4 a.m. to make will for John Connell. Deed transfer from John to Mary Connell. |
| Jan. 30 | Tue | Dooley and Pat Scott came for a lease for them. |
| Feb. 1 | Thur | Mrs. James Heraty died at Eden at 12:55 o'clock |
| Feb. 2 | Fri | Attend funeral for Aunt Bridget Heraty. Mass at Eden Station church. Burial Osceola. Connell no better. Sent for Dr. Fitz to Milwaukee. Got here at 2 a.m. tonight. Says Connell will be o.k. Charged $25.00. |
| Feb. 4 | Sun | First saw Dr. McNamara at Mitchell church. Butler called this a.m. Stayed till 2 p.m. |
| Feb. 7 | Wed | M. Butler and Slattery came in a.m. Stayed for dinner. Mrs. Gannon came over to see Connell. Stayed over night. |
| Feb. 21 | Wed | Uncle Jim Connell called this evening. |
| Feb. 22 | Thur | Father Burke anointed Connell. |
| March 13 | Tue | Started for Waldo. Jordan still on his wild tear; doing no business. |
| March 16 | Fri | One of Jas. Shea's girls of Osceola died today from quick consumption. |
| March 18 | Sun | Palm Sunday. Clear and terribly hot. Up to 70 degrees. Bat and ______? Called today and told how Hughes and Slattery were making up a ticket. |
| March 25 | Sun | Easter. John Manley and Molly Lindsay called to be married. |
| March 26 | Mon | Easter dance at Cascade by Johnny Smith. |
| March 29 | Thur | Pat Murray's house at Dundee burned. |
| April 3 | Tue | Was today the victim of misplaced confidence in a Dutchman, by being defeated as a candidate for Town Chairman. |
| April 8 | Sun | Henry Gahagan's house burned with all the contents while people were at mass. |
| April 18 | Wed | John Naughton and Katie Murray married at New Cassell. |
| April 30 | Mon | Jim commenced going to school, the first time to Nelly O'Brien. |
| May 6 | Sun | Took dinner with Butler's, stayed till 5 p.m. A boy baby born to Jerry Crosby's. #2. |
| May 9 | Wed | John Slattery had a barn raising today. 40 x 80 feet. |
| May 10 | Thur | Grand free lunch, opening at Naughton and Murray's in New Cassell. |
| May 13 | Sun | Went to Mt. Calvary confession and communion. Got there at 7 ½ a.m. Got home 1 p.m. |
| May 14 | Mon | The great Catholic Convention at Sheboygan. 20M persons, strangers to the city. 4 excursion trains from Plymouth. |
| May 22 | Tue | The Gallagher's had a barn raising today. |
| May 23 | Wed | There was to be a dance at Slattery's barn tonight. Topped by the rain. Music didn't show up. |
| May 24 | Thur | The school marm, Miss Nellie O'Brien, called this p.m. and stopped over night. |
| May 25 | Fri | Mrs. Mary (Gill) Hughes of Milwaukee died at 4 a.m. from the effects of childbirth. |
| May 27 | Sun | Mary Hughes, nee Gill, buried at Saukville today. |
| June 1 | Fri | Ed Harvey, assessor, came here, listed personal property. |
| June 4 | Mon | Tom Mangan had his barn raising. |
| June 5 | Tue | This is the 48th Anniversary of the sailing of our family from Liverpool for America on the good ship Manchester of Cork, Captain Brown and arrived Quebec 5 weeks and 3 days after. |
| June 8 | Fri | Dance at Caufield's this evening. |
| June 9 | Sat | Dance at Gallagher's new barn. |
| June 11 | Mon | Bees today at Devine's and Connors. |
| June 13 | Wed | 92 degrees at 11 a.m. |
| June 16 | Sat | Circus at Plymouth. Mona attended. |
| June 17 | Sun | Father Burke gave a certain person in the congregation a raking down today from the altar. |
| June 19 | Tue | Dance at Crosby's. Got up by Minnie. |
| June 22 | Fri | Big dance at Slattery's new barn. |
| June 24 | Sun | A social party of old folks at Lindsay's this p.m. Mrs. Roach of St. Paul (George Lindsay's sister), the Gallagher's, Burke's, Gaynor's, Lindsay's and Heraty's there. |
| June 26 | Tue | Dance at Joe Bowser's new barn. |
| June 27 | Wed | John Hanlon and Maggie Rice married today. |
| June 28 | Thur | One of the Hughes girls of Osceola married today. |
| July 1 | Sun | Father Burke gave a Homily on staying around the church before and after mass. |
| July 8 | Sun | Donahue's had a family gathering today. Even Lizzie from Nebraska is at home. Ben Collins with his family from Sheboygan there. Collins drove home with his team this evening. Mrs. Phil McBride there. |
| July 10 | Tue | General small pox scare in town. Bill Hughes sick with small pox. |
| July 15 | Sun | Wm. Hughes, son of James, died at 9 p.m. of small pox. 2nd case, the other being young O'Rourke. |
| July 17 | Tue | Michael Collins, Bens brother, buried in Mitchell today. He died out West suddenly. |
| July 20 | Fri | Dan Slattery called on us this evening, first time since his return from St. Louis. Jas. Hughes Sr. reported sick. |
| July 21 | Sat | Helped Pat Quinn at barn raising all day. Had only 14 men. |
| July 22 | Sun | Miss Libbie Rooney and a Mr. Rooney from Minnesota were called to be married today. |
| July 24 | Tue | Mailed a letter to Flannery, Fulton, N.Y. |
| July 26 | Thur | Dr. McNamara of Plymouth reported as having the small pox and having to go to Milwaukee for treatment. |
| July 27 | Fri | 98 degrees F. Two of Jim Hughes children have small pox as reported from Plymouth. |
| July 28 | Sat | A rotten cheese meeting at the Reddington factory, when the patrons had to stand the whole loss on the cheese sale. |
| July 31 | Tue | Dr. Connell of St. Cloud and Miss Twohig of Osceola married. |
| Aug. 5 | Sun | Heard this morning of the death of Dr. McNamara at Milwaukee yesterday of small pox and from internal injuries. He fell from a two story window while delirious. |
| Aug. 6 | Mon | Mrs. Dennis Rooney of Minnesota called today, sister of Tom and Jas. Rooney. |
| Aug. 7 | Tue | Received letter from Fulton today, Mary Flannery. First copy of Record to K. Donahue's? |
| Aug. 8 | Wed | 104 degrees in p.m. Libby Rooney and James Rooney of Minnesota married today. |
| Aug. 29 | Wed | John Triphan, who lived on the Andrews farm, was buried yesterday. He died of quick consumption. |
| Aug. 31 | Fri | Kitty Lavelle died at 2 p.m. of consumption in the McNicholas house under the "hill." |
| Sept. 3 | Mon | Kitty Lavelle buried today in Mitchell cemetery. |
| Sept. 7 | Fri | Shindig at Butler's. |
| Sept. 22 | Fri | At about 3 a.m. there came up a terrible thunderstorm with vivid lightning. A regular downpour of rain and a few moments after 3 a.m. lightning struck John Slattery's new barn It burned to the ground with all its contents, consisting of all the grain and hay on the farm. Saved only 50 bushels of wheat that was threshed yesterday. The two old log cribs also burned. Nothing saved from them. It was a grand but dreadful sight to see such a fine barn with its great mows full of grain and hay consumed without the power of resistance. How frail is man in the presence of nature. The loss of 45 acres of best barley, 16 acres oats, 30 tons of hay. The insurance in the Plymouth Company, $700.00 on building and $300.00 on grain and hay. Forbes barn in S.E. Mitchell burned. |
| Sept. 25 | Tue | Jim O'Connell's away today on a tour of oats collecting for Slattery. Had 35 bags of oats. He did well for Slattery. |
| Sept. 27 | Thur | Father Burke around today gathering oats. Gave him a bag. |
| Sept. 28 | Fri | House warming at Johnny Gaynor's. Thomas Hughes of Dundee died this p.m. |
| Sept. 30 | Sun | Went to Quinn's to learn about the funeral of Tom Hughes. |
| Oct. 1 | Mon | Dan today at helping John Slattery at "bee" cutting timber for his new barn #2. Tom Hughes buried today at Osceola by Reverend Father Donovan. |
| Oct. 2 | Tue | Boys this evening after a bee hive in the woods. |
| Oct. 5 | Fri | An heir born to the Martin Devine estate today. First in the Cosgrove line. |
| Oct. 6 | Sat | Heard of the death of Michael Moran who died in Nebraska. |
| Oct. 18 | Thur | Dick Phalen nominated for Member of Assembly from the 3rd district. |
| Oct. 22 | Mon | Ed Dooley came this morning after lease from Pat Scott from Iowa. |
| Oct. 23 | Tue | Mailed lease to Pat Scott at Ironwood ?, Iowa. |
| Oct. 31 | Wed | Jim Cahill and Larry Reilly's daughter of Mitchell called to be married. |
| Nov. 1 | Thur | Grand Democratic rally at town house addressed by Judge Gillen and Attorney Hughes. |
| Nov. 4 | Sun | Jim Hughes made a ruckus at the church about his son W.T. Hughes about some story told about him. |
| Nov. 5 | Mon | In the p.m. went and helped Slattery lay foundation of barn, at it till dark. |
| Nov. 7 | Wed | Slattery was going to have raising today. Snow stopped them this a.m. Had raising in the p.m. and both boys helped them. |
| Nov. 8 | Thur | Slattery had his 3rd edition of raising today. They finished the raising this p.m. after a long struggle. |
| Nov. 12 | Mon | The Piper-Caufield wedding at Cascade. Father Burke at his residence. |
| Nov. 13 | Tue | The two Gill girls and Miss O'Brien of Ontonagon, Michigan called to see us this p.m. |
| Nov. 14 | Wed | Jim Cahill and Mary Reilly married at Cascade. |
| Nov. 15 | Thur | Received letter from W. Scanlan and McDermott, Iron River. |
| Nov. 16 | Fri | John Connell and George went to Sheboygan regarding Hughes case. |
| Nov. 21 | Wed | Pat Doherty and Miss Crogan married at Cascade. |
| Nov. 25 | Sun | Mike Burke, brother of Father Burke, and a Miss Mame Bohan called to be married. |
| Dec. 2 | Sun | Another Hughes "racket" at Johnny Connell at the church again today. |
| Dec. 4 | Tue | Two stone bees today: at Connell's and Mangan's. |
| Dec. 9 | Sun | Katy Gill here last night and all day. Jim Connell and Mike Slattery here this a.m. awhile. |
| Dec. 10 | Mon | Heard of the depredation that was committed in the Glenbeulah Catholic Church. The chalice was stolen and other acts of sacrilege committed. |
| Dec. 29 | Sat | Old Slattery came this a.m. and got his back up for nothing. |
| Dec. 30 | Sun | Tom Foley of Waldo, formerly of Mitchell, died 6 o'clock of T.B. |
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