Since Eben Alexander moved to Knoxville many bits of news about his success as a surgeon have drifted ack home, but the latest bulletin shows him in a role in which is more familiar to Chapel Hill. Recently he bought a farm not far from the city and is raising vegetables and chickens. Among his chickens are many game roosters. The doctor was an ardent cockfighter when he lived here as a youth, and the mention of his raising game roosters leads to the suspicion that he has not given up the sport. But this must be wrong, for he has become an elder in the Presbyterian church and cock-fighting would hardly comport with his dignity. Probably he has the roosters about him just to remind him of the joys of his childhood.
From page 4 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, March 12, 1925
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