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1892 Thomas Heraty's Diary
| Date | Day | Entry |
| Jan. 8 | Fri | Uncle Jim Connell around today collecting for Pat Scott. I gave him 1 bag of barley. |
| Jan. 10 | Sun | Henry Burke and Ella Gahagan called to be married. |
| Jan. 12 | Tue | Billy Connors was brought home from the North Woods sick with rheumatism. He was entirely helpless. |
| Jan. 17 | Sun | Mike O'Brien at mass today at Mitchell. Collection for negroes in the church. |
| Jan. 18 | Mon | Heard of Barney Mulloy being buried at Fond du Lac. Was hurt at Chicago in November. |
| Jan. 21 | Thur | Sent to the Citizen $4.00 for self and Slattery. |
| Jan. 25 | Mon | Heard about Henry Jordan's mishap at Milwaukee last week. |
| Jan. 26 | Tue | Henry Burke and Ella Gahagan married at Mitchell. |
| Jan. 29 | Fri | Copied names of congregation and made list of amounts paid by each to be read on Sunday at church. |
| Feb. 5 | Fri | Peter Murphy's 2 � year old boy child was poisoned today and died from the effects of drinking carbolic acid from a bottle left in an exposed place. |
| Feb. 14 | Sun | Heard this evening of the death of Mrs. James Martin of Osceola, who died yesterday. |
| Feb. 27 | Sat | Heard today from Post Office Department about a third trip being established on our mail route. |
| Feb. 28 | Sun | Mike Slattery and Paddy Connors called this evening. |
| Feb. 29 | Mon | A dance at Dundee tonight for Clifford youngsters. |
| March 7 | Mon | Mrs. Martin Devine Jr. died at 1:30 a.m. Said to be from consumption. Bridget Jordan quite sick at Naughtons. |
| March 14 | Mon | Old Tom Jordan died at the home of his son, Tom Jr., at Rockfield, Washington County, this morning. |
| March 17 | Thur | Old Tom Jordan buried at Mitchell. |
| March 25 | Fri | Old Mrs. Luke Flynn died at 10:30 today a.m. |
| March 27 | Sun | Old Mrs. Luke Flynn buried at Mitchell. |
| April 10 | Sun | Hannah O'Connell and John Gaynor; Mary Gill and ______ Hughes were called to be married, first time. |
| April 26 | Tue | Four weddings. John Gaynor and Hannah O'Connell; Dick Hughes and Mary Gill of Mitchell; Tom Moynihan and Kate Mangan; Dick Hardgrove and Kate Doyle of Greenbush, at Osceola. |
| May 14 | Sat | Boy, the first, born to Mag (Crosby) Smith of Russell. |
| May 15 | Sun | The Gallagher's and Devoy's called at 12 noon. The Devoy's are on their way to Lincoln, Nebraska to live there. |
| May 22 | Sun | Father Burke went to Boston. Capuchin said mass. Ball game at Reddington's this p.m. |
| June 10 | Fri | A dance at Connors new house. |
| June 12 | Sun | A game of ball between Pius and Dundee at the picnic grounds |
| June 15 | Wed | A soldiers picnic at Preston's grove at Cascade today. |
| June 24 | Fri | On my way home from Waldo, I met Mike Butler Sr. who told me of the death of Wm. Connors at Quinnesec, Michigan last night. Body was brought to his fathers this evening. |
| June 25 | Sat | Wm. Connors buried at Mitchell, Reverend Father Burke officiating. |
| June 29 | Wed | First mass by the Reverend Father Reilly at Mitchell. 9 priests at the church. |
| July 4 | Mon | Picnics in every direction. Plymouth, Waldo, Cascade, Eden, Adell, Random Lake. The Pius 9 at Waldo. All the youngsters attended the Waldo picnic and the Jordans dance. |
| July 10 | Sun | No mass at Mitchell. First time in many years. |
| July 13 | Wed | Mrs. James Foley died tonight with dropsy. |
| July 19 | Thur | Big dance at Johnny Brogan's new barn this evening. Music by Barber band from Glen. |
| July 21 | Thur | Tom Rooney had a barn raising today. |
| July 22 | Fri | 95 degrees throughout p.m. |
| July 29 | Fri | Dan Slattery returned to St. Louis after his vacation. Big barn dance at Tom Rooney's. |
| July 31 | Sun | I went up to John Brogan's to see the new fangled McCormack binder. |
| Aug. 4 | Thur | Went to Waldo with load of 30 boxes of cheese. |
| Aug. 18 | Thur | The two Misses Slattery from St. Louis called this evening and made the time pass pleasantly. |
| Aug. 22 | Mon | The two Slattery girls from St. Louis left for home this morning. |
| Aug. 27 | Sun | Grand picnic at Osceola. All attended. |
| Sept. 6 | Tue | Heard today of the death of Old Pat Dwire at Henry Jordan's hotel at Waldo. Was found dead in bed this morning. Heard he was to be buried in Farmington. |
| Sept. 7 | Wed | Old Pat Dwire formerly of Mitchell was buried at Farmington today. Also Mrs. John (blacksmith) O'Malley of Osceola. |
| Sept. 21 | Wed | Pat Slattery sick with inflammation of the bowels. |
| Sept. 25 | Sun | Self and Mona drove up to Slattery's to visit Pat. Father Burke gave Dr. Kratz of piece of his mind at Slattery's this p.m. It was a bad affair for the priest. |
| Sept. 19 | Thur | Pat Slattery no better today. |
| Oct. 2 | Sun | The Catholic church building and other homes nearby were struck by lightning this morning at 8�. |
| Oct. 3 | Mon | I was called to write the last will and testament of Martin Reddington and Anthony Reddington being witness to the will and Jas. Reddington was appointed as executor. |
| Oct. 9 | Sun | Phipps girl and Smith boy and Phipps girl and Bartell were married today, double wedding. |
| Oct. 22 | Sat | Allowed my name to come before the convention as a candidate for a member of the House. Received 5 votes on the first ballot, then withdrew. NO IRISH need apply. |
| Oct. 25 | Tue | Mrs. Harrison died at Washington at 1:40. |
| Oct. 26 | Wed | Father Burke called today, oats collection and talked pews. I gave him 1 bag of oats and 1 bag tatoes. |
| Oct. 29 | Sat | Mike Cosgrove died at 3 a.m. |
| Oct. 31 | Mon | Mike Cosgrove buried. |
| Nov. 12 | Sat | A raffle at Slattery's in the night. |
| Nov. 14 | Mon | Auction at Johnny Franey's, for the sale of his personal things. Had a bid of six thousand dollars. |
| Nov. 18 | Fri | Twin girl babies born to Tim Murphy's of Milwaukee. |
| Nov. 30 | Wed | Bart Donahue had a stone bee, hauling stone for barn wall. |
| Dec. 4 | Sun | Haas from Plymouth came and I sold him 4 head of cows at $13.00 each. Got $2.00 on account in advance, to be delivered Friday. |
| Dec. 10 | Sat | Johnny helped Slattery at sawing bee. |
| Dec. 12 | Mon | Mona was taken ill. Got Johnny ready to start for Dr. to Plymouth to Cascade. Dr got here at 1 p.m., stayed all night. |
| Dec. 13 | Tue | Another event took place in our family at 6 � o'clock this morning. There was born to us a girl baby. Mother attended by Dr. Kratz. |
| Dec. 22 | Thur | Mona up, first time, today. |
| Dec. 24 | Sat | Christmas night. The family all together at supper. The chimney caught fire and gave us quite a start. |
| Dec. 25 | Sun | 11 � o'clock mass at Mitchell today. Father Burke took up a collection. I paid him $1.00. Received of Father Burke, $10.00. He got about $155.00 in todays collection. |
| Dec. 26 | Mon | At home till 2 p.m., getting ready to start for Milwaukee. Left home at 2 p.m. Dan drove with team to Waldo at 5 p.m. for Milwaukee. Saw big tannery fire. |
| Dec. 29 | Thur | Started home. Got to Waldo at 7:20 and stayed till 2 p.m. Rode home with Conger as far as Devine's. |
| Dec. 31 | Sat | Mary Beagan died at Beechwood. |
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