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1909 Thomas Heraty's Diary
| Date | Day | Entry |
| Jan. 1 | Fri | Gathering of relatives for dinner: 3 Gilboy's, Dale, Tom, Mag; Miss Reilly, Johnny Bowser, all our family. The boys played cards and the girls sang and played. |
| Jan. 5 | Tue | Drove to Plymouth to attend beer (?) meeting. Resolved to discontinue insuring cheese factory. I was elected again for town of Mitchell for another year. |
| Jan. 14 | Thur | Andy McDonnell died at his home in city of Plymouth. |
| Jan. 19 | Tue | Attended Requiem mass for Andy McDonnell. Funeral started from Plymouth at 10 a.m. for Mitchell cemetery. |
| Jan. 27 | Wed | Exhibition at St. Michael's, auspices of the choir. All our folks went to Parnell to the church entertainment. |
| Jan. 29 | Fri | Snow, snow, snow, piles and drifts. Snowed all day a perfect hurricane, blinding storm. 10 foot drifts, worst day in 72 years. |
| Feb. 4 | Thur | Heard this p.m. of the death of Henry Fisher of Plymouth after a short illness, age 61. Also heard of the death of Patt Grimes' son, killed in lumber camp near Seattle, Washington. |
| Feb. 5 | Fri | Sent for Farm Journal, 25 cents inclosed for a 2 year subscription. |
| Feb. 13 | Sat | Martin Devine was buried today in Mitchell. High mass by Father Fisher. |
| March 7 | Sun | John Mulkearns was buried in Mitchell cemetery, he was 46 years old. Died at Pestigo. |
| March 21 | Sun | Philip Hand was buried today at Cascade. |
| April 10 | Sat | Auction at Tom Phalen's, everything sold at high prices. Cows as high as $79.00. Horses as high as $200.00. |
| April 12 | Mon | Had message by phone that Mrs. Anthony Naughton had died. |
| April 15 | Thur | Mrs. Naughton was buried today in Mitchell. High mass by Reverend Fisher. Pall bearers: B. Donahue, Tom Reilly, J. Gilboy, Ed Smith was director. |
| April 16 | Fri | Old Mrs. James Lavelle was buried today. |
| April 27 | Tue | I drove down to Smith's to get blanks for doctors report about Smith's death. Told Gariety to get check from Ninnemann. |
| April 28 | Wed | Thick and cold. Snowed the worst storm of the winter. At 11 p.m. there was about 9 inches and still snowing. Dr. Nutt made a statement about the death of Edwin Smith. Got home at 9:10 p.m. Worst drive in years with the storm. Cold, everything sailing in water and slick. No getting around, no sign of spring. It's a terrible condition of things for many years. |
| May 4 | Tue | Still have snow along fences and in the woods. Roads in bad shape, poor going. |
| May 4 | Tue | John Burt called today about the Burkhart house. Heard of sale and purchase of the McNicholas factory by Nick Cosgrove. |
| May 5 | Wed | The first Spring day in 1909. |
| May 14 | Fri | Mrs. McGinty was buried today in Mitchell. Mass by Reverend Fisher. |
| May 16 | Sun | A number of outsiders at church today. The Doctors Connell and Rooney from Appleton, Stack from Osceola and others. |
| May 27 | Thur | Three carpenters came to build the wagon shed. |
| May ? | Sat | Three carpenters here till supper when they went home to Beechwood. |
| June 2 | Wed | Self and Kit left for Milwaukee at 7:30 a.m. from Plymouth to Sheboygan at 10:30, from Sheboygan to Milwaukee at 12 o'clock and got to Milwaukee at 2:30. |
| June 13 | Sun | Jas. Mangan and Kate O'Connell were called to be married, so was Mike Donahue and Ella Clifford of Scott. |
| June 15 | Tue | Heard of Mrs. McWilliams death in Milwaukee. |
| June 18 | Fri | Started to Plymouth to attend Mrs. McNair Williamson funeral, drove from Plymouth to Greenbush cemetery. A big Forester dance tonight, youngsters attended. |
| June 22 | Tue | Well, this is a regular melter all day at 86 degrees. Willie Conger was buried today in the little Union church cemetery, Forest. |
| June 24 | Thur | Clear and melting hot again, today was 84 degrees at 2 p.m. |
| June 30 | Wed | Kate O'Connell and James Mangan were married in Mitchell church at 8 a.m. by Reverend Father Fisher. Breakfast served at the O'Connell home. The young couple left for Plymouth for their home in South Dakota. I gave as a present a $5.00 gold piece. |
| July 2 | Fri | Mrs. Sarah Gallagher was buried today at Mitchell. She died at the Alcox Hotel in Waldo at age 86 years. |
| July 4 | Sun | Tom Dwyer's son, John, died at 5 o'clock this morning. |
| July 6 | Tue | School meeting tonight. I attended. |
| July 17 | Sat | Baby Dee had a birthday party today. Had all the babies in the neighborhood at party and supper. Her 5th birthday. |
| July 20 | Tue | The Moynihan girl died today at Greenbush. |
| July 2? | Mrs. Smith called telling she got a letter that she had been allocated a pension for $12.00 starting the 26th of April. | |
| July ? | Nervating hot and clear and muggy warm at 95 degrees, suffocating. | |
| July ? | A daughter brought to the John Gallagher estate. | |
| July 31 | Sat | Heard of the death of John Dooley. Buried August 1st in Mitchell cemetery. |
| Aug. 6 | Fri | Executed a mortgage at the Brogan farm to Hugh Rooney in the sum of $500.00 at 5 %. Payable in 3 years. |
| Aug. 25 | Wed | Two autos went up and down road today. |
| Aug. 28 | Sat | Leonard's house on fire. I went there to examine the loss. It is serious and came near being a total and heavy loss. |
| Aug. 30 | Mon | This morning, I, with Flora, wagon and Kit, drove and attended John Lynch's funeral, who was buried in Mitchell cemetery. It was the biggest funeral in Mitchell in many years. About 200 teams in line. |
| Sept. 3 | Fri | John Gill's girl child died last night from operation for appendicitis. |
| Sept. 7 | Tue | First day of the County Fair. The R.R. surveyors passed through the south lots on the way East towards Sheboygan this a.m. Hope they will locate ______???? |
| Sept. 10 | Fri | 4th last day of the County Fair. |
| Sept. 13 | Mon | State Fair in Milwaukee, went to fair grounds via National Avenue. |
| Sept. 18 | Wed | Went to Chicago. Rode into city from Evanston on elevated, met Milo Gallagher. |
| Sept. 22 | Wed | Boys, Jim and Rob, attended dance at Parnell tonight. |
| Oct. 6 | Wed | The Flaherty-Reilly wedding took place at Mitchell today. Mass by Reverend Fisher. |
| Oct. 16 | Sat | The Conger auction held today at the Will Conger home in the town of Greenbush. Jerry Crosby was the auctioneer and I the clerk. |
| Nov. 10 | Wed | A son born to Mr. And Mrs. John O'Connell at Milwaukee. |
| Nov. 14 | Sun | Four deaths: Austin Quinn, Mrs. McLaughton, James Lynch and Laura Brown Murphy, all dead of different causes. |
| Nov. 16 | Tue | Austin Quinn buried at Mitchell. Mass by strange priest. Father Fisher absent. Small funeral, 26 teams. |
| Nov. 17 | Wed | Laura Brown Murphy, daughter of Adon Brown, was buried in Dundee cemetery. |
| Nov. 24 | Wed | Genevieve Gwendoline Gallagher and James John William Graff married at Cascade by Father Fisher. |
| Nov. 26 | Fri | Great football game of Marquette vs. Notre Dame at Milwaukee. Two great Catholic Universities. |
| Dec. 2 | Thur | Pat Grimes of Greenbush was buried today in Mitchell. |
| Dec. 11 | Sat | Mrs. Patrick Cooney buried in Mitchell cemetery. |
| Dec. 17 | Fri | Mrs. Stack buried in Osceola today. |
| Dec. 19 | Sun | Henry Mangan, his wife, Mrs. John Mangan and boy went to Milwaukee with team and sleigh. They left here this morning at 8 a.m. They will have a cold drive. Sharp cold all day and night, 0 degrees. |
| Dec. 20 | Mon | Old man Donahue died tonight at 9:30, 89 years of age. |
| Dec. 23 | Thur | Old man Jeremiah Donahue was buried. Mass at Mitchell by Father Fisher. Pallbearers were Tom Dwyer, Peter Murphy, Will Dwyer, Joe Bowser, John Brogan and Tom Heraty. |
| Dec. 25 | Sat | Tommy Slattery was buried. High mass at Mitchell. |
| Dec. 29 | Wed | Dance at Lindsay's Hall, Parnell. Dan took Alice and Robert took Kit, Johnny did not go. |
| Dec. 30 | Thur | Joe Skelton had a wood chopping bee. |
| Dec. 31 | Fri | This makes my 49th diary, started keeping diary on January 1, 1860. |
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