Our five year stay in Maurice was very pleasant, in spite of the fact that two cyclones and other bad storms visited that section, all of which did not bring any harm or disaster to anyone of our family.

In 1902 the decision was made to dispose of The Review and return to Sioux City. While grade schools had been taken advantage of by children of the editor and wife, there was no high school adequate, and this was the compelling reason of another move. Ralph, our eldest son, did not care for the printing business and wanted to go where he could prepare himself for some other line of work.

Selling our subscription list, good will and part of the equipment to a newspaper in a neighbor town, whose editor pledged himself to fill out all of our unexpired subscriptions to subscribers, we closed our business, sold our home and moved back to Sioux City.

However, great pressure was brought to bear on the editor to induce him to remain in Sioux County. Merchants and leading business and professional men at Orange City, the county seat, being somewhat dissatisfied with the conduct of their only English newspaper, offered to help finance and back this writer if he would buy and take over the paper. After due consideration, this writer, regretfully turned down the proposition for various reasons, which it is unnecessary to go into here.

We decided it best to again cast our lot at South Sioux City, where we already had some property interests. Buying a cottage in what was then considered a desirable location, we moved our family into this place. An old frame hotel building in the Covington section of the city, being owned by this writer, was wrecked and made into two desirable family residences.

After this was finished we returned to Sioux City, where we obtained employment in various offices; also engaged for a time in business ventures of our own in between time, generally disposing of them at a profit. These developments occupied close to five years, when we again got the “urge” to get back into the country weekly field.