Mrs. Robert Tigh Grows Ten Foot Six Inch Corn on a City Lot

Leila M. Anderson wife of Robert William Tigh (My 2nd Great Grandmother)

Evening World Herald, Omaha, Friday, July 10, 1914

(Omaha, Nebraska)

Corn ten feet six inches high, and growing taller all the time. How's that for a contribution to the bumper crop? Grown by a woman too. Mrs. Robert W. Tigh, 2375 South Twenty-eight street, is the proud producer. She did the whole job herself -- spaded the earth, planted the seed and keeps the dirt turned over between the rows and the suckers picked off the stalks. 

Her cornfield is in the lot next to her house. The place was full of weeds and she promised the owner that she'd clear them off if he would let her use the space for corn. She planted ordinary food corn that she bought at the feed store for the horse. The ears of corn are about a foot and a half long now. There's no telling how big they'll be when they're ripe. Mrs. Tigh is having the time of her life watching that corn grow, measure's it every day. She had no idea it would be so big. She's always loved gardening, though, and every summer raises enough struck for her own family and has some left to sell the neighbors.

  "Women wouldn't get nervous if they'd do this kind of work", declared Mrs. Tigh. "It's healthy to get outdoors and dig in the dirt. Sometimes I go to visit, but when the women start to gossip about this and that, I have to run home and get out in my garden and work".