mice active with season change

well I'm down to 7 cats, yeah I know, some sort of predator got a kitten and a calico last month,  but I dont know what the pride of 7 have been doing with their time but they let a mouse in the house. it doesn't help that the house is at least 100 years old but but probably civil war era and it  has more holes in it than a colander and just as many hidden holes and such. I got to get that dang mouse. I set out a couple sticky traps and a couple of regular spring traps baited with peanut butter but no luck.
any ideas?

It is definitely mouse season. I have two cats and still had a mouse in my BEDROOM that I could not get the cats to engage. They had, however disassembled one in my best shoe a month ago so the mice are getting in somewhere here as well.  I have had zero luck with anything except cats and spring loaded traps. I hate the traps but they work. I have one in the bedroom baited with peanut butter with no luck but heard a lot of crunching under the bed 3 nights ago and found pieces, so the cats have been working. Just not on my schedule. I'm sure it gets old for them. It is the old cat that works the inside of the house and young one is indoor-outdoor, and is very busy outside. I allow lots of snakes to live here, no rattlers, even providing them water and great hiding places. And the chickens love to eat baby mice....  I saw many types of repellants made with cinnamon and peppermint online so I may make my own if the mint didn't freeze last night. My mom swore that using Decon in the wedge packets is the way to go since it dehydrates them after death so they don't stink. Nothing worse than that smell as they die in the walls or crawl space. I just don't want my animals getting the mice after poison, of course. Sorry not much help. Just joining in to share the challenge.