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Show PREACHER ASSAULTED ON HIS WAY TO CHURCH MUSKOGEE, Otda.. Jan. 21. With both rws blackened and swollen lu face and Up cut, hi .-lot bin- lorn and disheveled dishev-eled and with ;i policeman on guard m the pulnlt. Rev. D. Noland Smith preached th dedicatory sermon in tie First Methodist Episcopal church here tods y. two weeks' legal battle for the pos-ession pos-ession of the new edifice culminated this raornlnK III an assault upon the preacher a he was going to church. The assailant was C. F McKee, .i .,.n-t .,.n-t rector, who had been locked In lab for t.n e hours in order io compel him to turn over the 4,'v-i to the i i ,:..,, ic, lh church 6fflHals |