Stories from Thursday, January 10, 2002

Following a nationwide trend, the McCook Daily Gazette today introduced a new, narrower width for news columns and a new, sleeker style for headlines and body type. The size and style change, introduced in the early 1990s in larger cities, reached the Midlands in the recent years, and has since been adopted by the larger newspapers of Nebraska, including the Omaha World-Herald, Lincoln Journal-Star, Kearney Hub and North Platte Telegraph...

Dear Editor, As I was born a raised in McCook, Neb., I have been a Big Red fan all my life. My son, Kris, was only Nebraska born, and raised in California. He took me to the Rose Bowl game and this was an e-mail response from him a couple days after the game:...

Dear Editor, For our 50th wedding anniversary, my wife and I took a three-week trip to Europe. Every year on our wedding anniversary, we buy something for our home. While visiting the medieval city of Rothemburg, Germany (it still has the walls around the old city) we went into a store that sells cuckoo clocks. ...

"I love my job," I told my editor Tuesday as I walked in the door from an interview. "Why," he asked me, "what's happened now?" he responded, taking my comment as sarcastic. (I can't imagine why he would misunderstand my delivery.) I spent the next ten minutes trying to convince him that I really do love my job. It finally took a list of alternative jobs I could be doing to get him to understand my passion for this one...

Raymond W. Harr ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Raymond W. Harr, 54, died Monday (Jan. 7, 2002) at North Side Hospital in St. Petersburg. He was born Nov. 28, 1947, at McCook, to V. James and Dorothy (Converse) Harr. He grew up in McCook and graduated from McCook High School in 1966...

Gladys F. Cotton BARTLEY -- Gladys F. Cotton, 94, died Wednesday (Jan. 9, 2002) at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She was born April 13, 1907, on the family farm north of Bartley to Karl and Della (Hart) Bauer. She graduated from Cambridge High School in 1925 and received her normal training endorsement from Kearney State Teachers College. She taught school in Frontier and Red Willow counties for eight years...

Violet R. Nelson CAMBRIDGE -- Violet R. Nelson, 83, died Jan. 9, 2002, at the Good Samaritan Center in Hastings. She was born Oct. 21, 1918, in Adams County to John and Elizabeth (Trientje) Boltjes. She was a graduate of Cambridge High School. On Oct. 28, 1952, she married James H. Nelson of Sioux Falls, Iowa. She worked for Bankers Life in Des Moines, Iowa for 10 years. Following retirement, she and her husband returned to Cambridge...