ROSES FOR THE LIVING

                                                         Miss Blanche Cliff

      Many years ago people were homesteading pine lands in the northern peninsula.  Near

L’Anse, the county seat of Baraga county, a family was settled several miles from town in

wilderness and the father, James A. Cliff, acted as guide to prospectors.  The family consist-

ed of Mr. And Mrs. Cliff and three children Claude, Amelia, and Blanche, a fourth child

having died in infancy.

     Mr. Cliff finished homesteading and moved directly to Isabella county, living a year in a

small place east of Mt. Pleasant, then moving to Weidman, where the children were raised.

     The subject of our sketch this week, Miss Blanche Cliff, is known to the whole commun-

ity as “our Blanche,” her serenity and kindly disposition having made friends of every man,

woman and child for many miles.

     For twenty-five years she has been bookkeeper and clerk in the store of Drallette and Son

and without Blanche the store would not be Drallette and Son’s any longer, but a strange

place that would not be familiar at all.

     Blanche is a member of the Methodist Church.

     In presenting her with a wreath of  “roses for the living” we are presenting also the heart-

felt assurance of appreciation and best wishes of the whole community.