Fiery sermon not the cause of the blaze!
One winter evening, on Monday Feb. 19, 1924, Reverend David A. Gregg, pastor, of the Meeker Methodist Episcopal Church began ringing the church bell to sound an alarm that a fire was blazing in the church. Several neighbors and townspeople came hurriedly to the scene.
Someone telephoned Undersheriff Nichols to report a riot at the Methodist Church. Nichols arrived at the church and found Rev. Gregg and…