The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31
DOCKET CLEARED
 COURT ADJOURNS E. I. Roark is Punished for
 Contempt of Court THE SITE IS PURCHASED Woodenware Company Will Build Plant Near SeIma-company Has
 Acquired Twenty-Five
 Acres of Land.
THE SITE IS PURCHASED

Selma, March 3O.-(Special )-Cireuit term. having been in session but two weeks and the docket being cleared in excellent style. Much interest was att tached to a proceedings for contempt against F. T. Roark of Massilon, in this county. MT. Roark was indicted at the last term of the city court for selling whisky without license. The case was continued until this court and when two negroes, the principal witnesses, were put or the stand they swore just the opposite from what they had sworn before the grand jury.
 Upon being bound over on the charge of perjury they told the solicitor that MT. Roark had threatened to kill them if they testified against him. The case against Mir. Roark was nolle pressed and contempt proceedings instituted.
 After listening to the witnesses in the case today Judge Miller declared he was convinced that the defendant was guilty of contempt and also was engaged in violating the prohibition law. He there fore sentenced him to jail until 10 o'clock Sunday morning. The judge gave se- we're lecture to Mr. Roark in passing sen tence upon him and extracted from him a promise that he would not harm the negroes who had testified nor would he sell any more whisky at Massilon.
 Site Was Secured.
 The Woodenware company which is to locate in Selma, has paid over the pur- chase money for the twenty-one acres of |, .s4x x.,l,f ,fD1N the manufactory is to be established. The deed was executed today and the check handed over for the full amount by A. l.. Church, president of the Bridge port Woodenware Manufacturing com pany and MT. G. N. Crandall of Macon, Ga, president of a similar concern at Macon and Ft. Valley, Ga.
 After this Mir. Church spoke of his plans. He said it was their purpose to make this a model plant; larger than any similar plant in the country, and better equipped by reason of experience in such matters than their other plants. He spoke of Selma as being an ideal place for the location The advantages, both by river and rail were evident on all sides. This is peculiarly so in the matter affect ing their business. For instance, he said. "Our concern will do a very large export business to Cuba and South American fruit growing countries. We export many shiploads of goods to these countries, and the wate rate from Mobile is very satisfactory: more so than any other port. Now by means of our river reach ing Mobile, and being navigable, it is possible to place our goods in the port al the lowest possible rate from the interior, so that the total rate from our factory to the port of destination is easily lower than any of our competitors can figure on.
 Will Have Boat.
 'We are going to have a boat of our own on this broad Alabama river. The timber along the river and along the road is all that can be desired. This cli- mate. this beautiful city. and our splen- did site renders this location ideal in every respect. We are glad to come to Selma for these reasons: but more than anything else, we are glad to come be- cause of the hearty welcome your bus mess men have extended us and their unmistakable anxiety to assure us of a welcome. Our plant will be beneficial to Selma. Mir. Crandall told me yester- day that one of his plants at Macon, which is a smaller concern than the one we will erect here. has a weekly pay roll now of 5000. Weekly wages are very bene- ficial to a community. The labor we em- po,' is not of that low order which fails to make anything but laborer, but we employ men who are skilled in their work, who receive high wages and who become good substantial citizens and taxpayers. Wo are glad to feel that Selma needs us, and We are glad to assure the people that we need Selma"