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Friday, May 14, 1909
Worthington Advance

H.J. Miller Dead

Herbert J. Miller, owner and editor of the Luverne Herald, died Saturday at his home in that city, after an extended illness from locomotor ataxia. "Bert," as he was familiarly known to his friends and to the newspaper fraternity for years, has conducted one of the best weekly papers in southwestern Minnesota, and had the reputation of writing some of the ablest as well as the most trenchant editorials that appeared in the rural press of this section. He had a peculiar gift for the ferreting out of news and of putting the facts before his readers in readable shape. By his death the newspaper fraternity of Minnesota loses an able newspaper man, and the city of Luverne one of its foremost citizens.

Albert H Meester

 Funeral services were held for Albert H. Meester, 98 year old former mayor of Ellsworth in the State Line Presbyterian church, last Friday, the Rev. E. H. Buschman officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. He died January 6 in Rock Rapids.
Mr. Meester was one of the three last living charter members of the church in which his funeral was held. The only other living charter members of the Ebenezer Presbyterian church on the state line is Joe G. Meester, former Kanaranzi hardware man, now of Willow Lake, S.D. and Mike Reemts, of Sioux Falls, S.D.
Mr. Meester was born October 12, 1859 in Germany. He came to this country with his father and brothers at the age of 16. They settled first in Illinois, then came by wagon to Grundy county, Iowa.
Mr. Meester's two brothers and father died there and Mr. Meester moved to Lennox, S.D., where he lived on a homestead for several years. Then he moved to the Ellsworth community where he farmed until his retirement.
He married Katie Rippentrop while living in Lennox, and they became the parents of six children. Mrs Meester died in 1911 and he was married to Mary Korf, of Forreston, Ill., June 10, 1920. There were no children born to this union, and she died October 22, 1955.
Mr. Meester lived in Ellsworth after his retirement from his Kanaranzi township farm until about 1930 when he and his wife moved to Forreston and made their home there for several years. Mrs Meester was hospitalized for a number................Rest is missing.