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1904 Thomas Heraty's Diary
| Date | Day | Entry |
| Jan. 3 | Sun | Heard of old Mrs. O'Hearn's death at Sheboygan. |
| Jan. 11 | Mon | Bid Naughton and Loretta Lindsay are on the sick list. |
| Jan. 20 | Wed | Fee buried today at Osceola. Died from effects of a horse kicking him 5 years ago. |
| Jan. 24 | Sun | 30 degrees at 8 a.m. Didn't go above 27 degrees all day. |
| Jan. 31 | Sun | Mike Gaynor and Bid Manley called to be married - 1st time - Mitchell. |
| Feb. 7 | Sun | Heard of Mrs. Nolan's death at church. |
| Feb. 16 | Tue | Mailed letter this p.m. to Fulton, N.Y., an inquiry about the Flannery's. |
| Feb. 21 | Sun | Drove to Slattery's and Donahue's to talk telephone with them. |
| Feb. 24 | Wed | Pat Quinn called today in relation to his boy working for the R.R. Co. |
| Feb. 27 | Sat | Death of Bridget Daley at Milwaukee yesterday, age 54. |
| Feb. 29 | Mon | Bridget Daley buried in Calvary cemetery, Milwaukee. |
| March 3 | Thur | Patsy Reddington died 23 years ago today, March 4, 1881. Johnny Whalen was found dead in the road north of Eden Station froze into the ice, this morning by John Rock. |
| March 6 | Sun | Old man Foy died at 5 o'clock a.m. at his home in Osceola. His wife was buried in Osceola yesterday. |
| March 8 | Tue | Both Mr. And Mrs. Foy were buried in the same grave today. |
| March 25 | Fri | Dan Murphy died last Wednesday. All Murphy children present except Mag. |
| March 27 | Sun | Old Mrs. Michaels died this morning. Mrs. Slattery Sr. sick, also John Gill and H. Gahagan children. Jack Mangan died this morning. |
| March 28 | Mon | Johnny Gill's boy died this morning. |
| March 29 | Tue | First saw Ed Slattery's boy John. |
| April 3 | Sun | Reverend Burke took up a collection, gave $1.00. Easter. |
| April 10 | Sun | Old Tom Moriarty of Osceola died today. |
| April 16 | Sun | Heard of the death of John Foley by kick from a horse. |
| April 23 | Sat | Old Mrs. Bowen died at 3 p.m. yesterday, 94 years of age. |
| April 25 | Mon | Mrs. Bowen buried today in Mitchell. Pallbearers: John F. Murray, Tom Dewire, Tom Gahagan, Tom Hearty (Heraty) and Pat Quinn. |
| April 26 | Tue | Old Mrs. Pat Murphy buried today at Cascade. |
| April 27 | Wed | The Kelly-Riordan wedding at Plymouth. |
| May 8 | Sun | Gus Cosgrove and Foy girl called to be married. |
| May 9 | Mon | A caucus composed of Murray-Gill-Butler-Phalen gang at town house tonight. Myself and Johnny attended but took no part in it. |
| May 12 | Thur | Ascension Thursday. Owen Morgan died today at home. |
| May 15 | Sun | Heard today of illness of Mrs. John (Julia Donohue) Murphy at Chicago. |
| May 18 | Wed | The Cosgrove-Foy wedding at Osceola. |
| May 19 | Thur | Cinch party at Reddington's tonight. |
| May 20 | Fri | Old man Alfred Raymond of Cascade was buried yesterday, he carried mail 4 years from Cascade to Pius P.O. |
| May 26 | Thur | Ed Crosby, Joe Murray and Dan O'Connell graduated at Milwaukee today. |
| June 1 | Wed | Heard of Joe Murphy being ready to die. |
| June 11 | Sat | Body of Wm. Egan of Escanaba died of paralysis. Brought Parnell, single, age 54, R.R. Engineer. |
| June 13 | Mon | Egan funeral. Pat Murray died today. |
| June 16 | Thur | Pat Murray buried in Mitchell today. Services were held from Dundee church. |
| June 17 | Fri | Body of Julia (Donahue) Murphy came to Plymouth on 7 p.m. train. Taken by O'Connell to Donahue's in Mitchell. Paddy Barrett of Sheboygan rode home with me. |
| June 29 | Wed | Ninnemann-Gahagan wedding took place at Cascade this a.m. |
| July 5 | Tue | Received a letter giving account of the death of Michael McHale of Syracuse, N.Y. |
| July 31 | Sun | Mary Ann Mildred Heraty was baptized at Mitchell by Reverend Burke. Mona and myself sponsors. Mrs. Devine quite sick. Priest and doctor called. |
| Aug. 3 | Wed | Heard of Pete Murphy breaking his leg. |
| Aug. 24 | Wed | The Duffy Kearn girls here all day. |
| Aug. 28 | Sun | Alice drove the Duffy and Kearn girls to Gallagher's this p.m. on their way home to Oconto. Reverend Burke took up a collection for the seminary. |
| Aug. 31 | Wed | A social at Parnell in honor of Martin Brogan's girl from Ironwood. |
| Sept. 2 | Fri | Mrs. Johnny Franey nee Kelly buried in Cascade. Died at Fond du Lac Wednesday. |
| Sept. 12 | Mon | Our boys machine threshing at Anthony Naughton's today and Raab's at Slattery's threshing. |
| Sept. 14 | Wed | Heard this morning of the successful operation on Tom Devine at Green Bay. |
| Sept. 15 | Thur | Froze hard last night. Drove to Plymouth, got 1,575 lbs. Of coal at $5.00 per ton. |
| Sept. 17 | Sat | The Leahy's auction today. |
| Sept. 18 | Sun | Heard this morning of the death of old Anthony Reddington at 10 o'clock last night of old age. |
| Sept. 21 | Wed | A black killing frost. |
| Sept. 22 | Thur | Pete Heraty of Eden called this evening, came to visit Mrs. Devine and other sick friends. |
| Sept. 23 | Fri | Lamb called here for dinner and I sold him 4 steers for $100.00. |
| Sept. 26 | Mon | Reverend James O'Malley of Oshkosh died from paralysis. Body taken to Westport for burial. |
| Oct. 3 | Mon | McGrain called with pension papers. |
| Oct. 4 | Tue | Father Burke around collecting oats. I gave him two bags. Jim O'Connell with him. |
| Oct. 10 | Mon | Auction at Mrs. Dan Murphy's. I was clerk. Total $1,100.00. Received $3.00 for clerking. |
| Oct. 13 | Thur | Old lady Gallagher called this evening with Johnny Gallagher. She staid all night. |
| Oct. 16 | Sun | Made out hunting license for Frank Murray. |
| Oct. 17 | Mon | School commenced today by Miss Hughes. |
| Oct. 18 | Tue | Tony Reddington rode home from Plymouth with me today. |
| Oct. 19 | Wed | Ed Murphy and John ? Naughton came after me to make a lease from Mrs. Murphy to the Naughton boys. |
| Oct. 20 | Thur | Lawrence Reilly called this evening. He took Mamie Skelton to station on his way to Chicago. |
| Oct. 21 | Fri | Ed Burke's little 5 year old girl died at 12 o' clock tonight from inflammation of the bowels. |
| Oct. 23 | Sun | Tom Franey had charge of Burke funeral. Pallbearers: Arimond, Devine, Lindsay and Murray. |
| Oct. 25 | Tue | Tom Devine came home from the hospital in Green Bay this p.m. He looks fairly well after his long confinement, went there Sept. 10. |
| Oct. 29 | Sat | Mrs. Martin Devine died at 4 o'clock this p.m. |
| Oct. 30 | Sun | Daniel O'Connell found a man being dragged under a buggy at Holly's ? on his way to Plymouth. He took him to Harvey's. |
| Nov. 1 | Tue | Mrs. Martin Devine was buried today at Mitchell. A Democratic rally tonight, address by Bowles and Reilly. I went to the rally. Parnell is getting to be a hell of a hole. No fit place for youngsters. Robert Gilboy & Mary Gahagan, Henry Mangan and Bid Naughton were called to be married. |
| Nov. 9 | Wed | Robert Gilboy and Mary Gahagan, and Matty McNair and Laura ______ |
| Nov. 10 | Thur | Last Quaker Medicine show at Parnell. There for four days. Mona, Alice, Jim, Rob and Kit attended. |
| Nov. 14 | Mon | Tom Burke and Ed Slattery came here this a.m. on biz. I made a mortgage and lease from Burke to Slattery. (Note by Frank Slattery: This should be Pat Slattery) |
| Nov. 17 | Thur | Henry Mangan and Bridget Naughton were married today at Mitchell. |
| Nov. 22 | Tue | Henry Brogan and Miss Florence Jordan married at West Allis. |
| Nov. 24 | Thur | Thanksgiving Day dance at Dowling's, Parnell, tonight. |
| Nov. 25 | Fri | At home all day after getting back from Devine's. I rode down with Dr. O'Neill, had him sign Devine's will as a witness at 11 a.m. |
| Nov. 27 | Sun | Martin Brogan of Ironwood called this evening on signing deed business. |
| Dec. 6 | Tue | The Passion Play at Osceola church tonight. |
| Dec. 25 | Sun | Late mass at Mitchell. Father Burke took up a collection. He got a liberal amount, $140.00. |
| Dec. 29 | Thur | Afternoon, Herman Ninnemann and Otto Helmer and Paul Helmer came here. Made a quit-claim deed from Ninnemann to Paul Helmer on his cheese factory. |
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