Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1912 — SIDE SHOW ROMANCE ENDS [ARTICLE]

SIDE SHOW ROMANCE ENDS

Midget 38 Inches Tall Gets License to Marry Girl Five Feet Eight in Height. Sc. Louis, Dec. 13.—A romance of the circus side show reached its climax in St. Louis when Jack W. C. Barnett of Roxboro, N. C„ twenty-one years old, 38 inches high and weighing 34 pounds, got a license to marry Miss Dorothy David Warfield of St. Louis, nineteen years old, about five feet eight inches in height and weighing 180 pounds. Mrs. H. L. Morris, seven feet four inches tall and weighing 126 pounds, will be matron of honor. Barnett had to be lifted upon a high stool when he was called on to sign the application fgr a license.