Pocket Notebook of John Jurgen Dykman - March 11, 1916 - February 4, 1918
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HIGHEST AWARD Highest Quality and Count No. 13 POCKET NOTE BOOK Name John Jurgen Dykman School Amoret Grade 11th
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I bot this note book [March 11, 1916] at Warrensburg while attending the tournament there The [Amoret High School] team of which I was Captian was very unlucky in Drawing the Warrensburgs High the second best team of the tournament. We were defeated about 3 to 1 because we would not hold out against a fast team like the W.H.S. and also because
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the court was very much larger then ours the dimentions of their cour being 60 ft wide and 90 ft long while our was but 30 x 60 ft The Warrensburg court was on the forth floor of one of their main bdlg. with a race track overhead while our court was in the Gym which we School boys had built being at that time only 13 in number while there were about 23 girls in
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the school which also gave us there best of assistance the money for building this said Gym was raised by the [Amoret High School] by Donations and by doing the [ms illegible: 1 wd] work the total amounting to $349 which paid for the Gym not counting the work which was donated by us boys
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that said yr. it was also insured for $500 the money going to NG Rowe ([Amoret High School] trustee) if detroyed and with said $500 to build another Gym for the [Amoret High School] and as quite a few of us [Amoret High School] Student would not be there during term 1916-1917 we app. appointed Prof. J. A. Wilson Geo. Paulman and L L Carpenter as directers to look after the Gym. Written June 20 in the year of our Lord 1916 J. J. Dykman
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During the terms 1914-1915 and 1915-1916 while Prof. J. A. Wilson and Mrs Wilson were teachers of the Amoret High School I enjoyed my most enjoyable term of school. while they were there the [Amoret High School] was made a second class school giving me 12 units for my H. S. work. Johnnie Dykman
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Be is Resolved On this 19 Day of Dune in the yr of Our Lord Nineteen Sixteen That I (John Dykman) having completed a three yr High School cours will go on to school another yr and complete the High School if Health and good luck will allow me to, with Gods help. J. J. Dykman
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Always remember [May 18, 1916] the Resolution made by the Junior girls of my class which will come true a year hence [Butler, Missouri] [September 5, 1916] all these girls (Marie Williams Bessie Waker Wilma Smith and Myrtle Hamilton are here at [Butler High School] except Bessie Waker.
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On the 25th day my friend and schoolmate Loyd Hazen and I went to Butler to see about going to school there. after working hard nearly all day we succeeded in finding a place for Both of us. I got a job at the Cottage Hotel while Loyd Hazen got a job to work for Lawyer Smith each place we got are [ms illegible: 1 wd]. It was on that day that we
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decided to go on higher in the Education World and if health and Luck permitts us to at least finish High School Written on the [October 13, 1916] in the yr of our Lord 1916 I (Johnnie Dykman) have been attending High School 6 weeks. am getting along very nicely altho I have to study awful hard. Loyd Hazen not having his grades up to the required average will now change his course J J Dykman
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On [September 4, 1916] in the yr of our Lord 1916 I started to Butler high school my friends from Amoret were Loyd Hazen Jimmie Tilsely Myrtle Hamilton Marie Williams and Wilma Smith Monday morning school took up at 8:30 oclock it being the first day we had only 10 min periods the School being out at 10 oclock [September 5, 1916] Tuesday all day go tin the wrong room twice Wed & Thur afternoons off J J Dykman
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[April 19, 1917] at home because of the shortage of food and the state of war existing between Germany & United States the boy of the [Butler High School] are allowed to go home and help on the farm and receive their Credits just as if in school J J Dykman
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[March 2, 1918] Having neglected to write my History for the last Ten months I will now proceed to write from where I left of up to now I quit [Butler High School] Ten weeks before school was out as we were alowed to do this in order to help out on the farm in this war time But I went Back on graduation day and got my diploma. about the [May 19, 1917] and Started to work in the bank the following Monday. I have been working in the Bank of Amoret
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up to now going along nicely. Started in at $20 a month and was now up to $45 a mo $50 was the set limit. But in the spring of 1917 I had to register [May 5, 1917] and my order no was 193. this putting me in the first draft. The first boys leaving in the Fall but I got off until [February 4, 1918] when I have to report for duty at [Butler, Missouri] at 3 oclock PM John Dykman
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| Title | Pocket Notebook of John Jurgen Dykman - March 11, 1916 - February 4, 1918 |
| Creator | Dykman, John Jurgen |
| Source | Dykman, John Jurgen. Pocket Notebook of John Jurgen Dykman. 11 March 1916 - 4 February 1918. Bates County Historical Society and Museum World War I Collection. Bates County Historical Society, Butler, Missouri. |
| Description | <p>John Jurgen Dykman wrote this diary about his high school experiences just prior to being drafted into the Army in February of 1918. Dykman attended Amoret High Scool in Bates County, Missouri. He was sent to Fort Riley, Kansas to report for the draft and contracted the Spanish Influenza and died on March 26, 1918.</p> |
| Subject LCSH | Influenza; Fort Riley (Kan.) |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Contributing Institution | Bates County Historical Society and Museum |
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| Date Original | March 11, 1916 - February 4, 1918 |
| Language | English |