My Cousin Viola Garrett was born Feb. 28, 1906. My Mother was helping care for her sister and the new baby when I played out in the cold and became ill with croup, so my Mother sent me to a Neighbor, Mrs. Bailey and she Doctored me up with Goose Grease and onions.
Mrs. Bailey's son Delbert was a young man but somehow took quite a fancy to me and soon after my parents moved to their new home, Delbert Bailey took a picture of me and had it enlarged and tinted. I do not remember him as he died while I was very small, but I remember well his Older brother Blaine who married and he and his wife lived many years with his Mother; three sons were born to them before the Family moved to Hicksville, Missouri where Blaine went to school and became a good Dr. of Osteopathy.
After we moved to Colorado and bought our Chevrolet Sedan I went back to Kansas to see my Parents, Brother and Sister and their Families. Blaine Bailey visited my parents and as Otis walked up the steps and onto the Porch, Blaine said to me, "Your boy has one leg shorter than the other." I couldn't believe it until Blaine laid him down on the Bed and showed me how his ankles did not fit together as they should. He gave Otis a treatment and then they fit at points as they should. Otis had a number of treatments from Dr. Raulston before they finally held.
I have taken many treatments from Dr. Raulston. He said I should take Cod Liver Oil. Earl said he doubted if I would take it, so he only got a small bottle. I surprised them by liking it and he soon had to get another and bigger bottle. Guess I really needed it at that time as I do not care for Cod Liver oil now. During my years of work I took many treatments and feel it was because of those treatments I was able to work for 20 years and retire with a good pension.