The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-09
Sue for $4,000 for Defama-
tion of Character.

ID. Alurlcn mere last SATURDAY MORN
ing in demand for $4,000 damages
for alleged defamation of their char
actor and home.
According to the record Mrs. Tes-
senneau and her husband. who live
at the premises known as ITO Mar
ket Street. Tacoma, Washington,
the September and October issue of
The Masonic Journal Publishing &
Supply Co. from the Provident
Bldg. in this city, it is alleged that
certain alleged defamatory state
ments were made in an article there
in published regarding the home and
the character of the people living
there. Mrs. Tessenneau alleges
that she and her husband have lived
there alone for more than a year
last past and that there has been no
Illegal liquor selling and that the
allegations of said article published
in the said Masonic Journal named
their home 1710 Market Street in
long list of alleged houses of prosti-
tuition with both white and black
inmates are false and defamatory
and have caused her much humilia-
ton damage and suffering; that the
statements in said article so far as
they relate to her home, person and
that of her husband were and are
falsely made and with malice and
elaboration. She sets forth shat
since the publication of said article
she has been insulted and pestered
by vicious men knocking at the front
door and insulting her."
The publication was made in an
article entitled "The Underworld
prostitution" Their n m S
we're not mentioned but it appears
that the house was included in a
list of alleged houses of prostitution,
according to the complaint.
Mrs. Tessenneau and her husband
are working people, members of st.
Leo's Catholic parish attending
Church regularly and their duties as
Catholics in good standing. They
are employed by The Universal Win
dow Cleaning Company and work
every night except Sunday night un-
til three and four o'clock a. m. and
sleep during the day. No one else
lives in their home.
Mrs. C. H. McCabe was hostess
Monday afternoon TO the BookloversI
club. A delicious southern lunch
con was served to the ladies. A
short business session was held after
the luncheon, after which the men,
bers of the club listened to the chair
man of the program committee, Mrs.
Worther Hamilton, read "The Weary
Blues" by Langston Hughes, one of
the younger poets of the race. This
collection of poems published in
1926 is dedicated to Hughes moth
er. 1t contains a very interesting
introduction of Langston Hughes by
Carl Van Vetchen, a well known
white writer. Mrs. Asberry, who
recently attended the miniature
Pan-African Congress and Inter
racial meeting at Portland, was
called upon to give report of the
convention. Mrs. Asberry's talk
was illustrated with the daily news
papers write-ups and pictures of the
congress. Concluding the report,
every member of the club expressed
her appreciation Of able manner in
which the state president of the
Washington Federated clubs acquit-
ted herself at the congress.
The Social Workers Club held its
regular monthly meeting at the
Children's Industrial Home. Mrs.
Mary Bolton, the matron of the
Home, served dinner to the workers
for a small stipend at $3.50 p. m.
Concluding the dinner, the workers
were taken for an inspection of the
various departments of the Home.
There are 70 children in the insti-
tuition ranging from the ages of one
to thirteen years. Among these
was only one of the darker races.
These children are taught citizen
ship and industrial habit after
they return from school each day.
After the inspection tour, the men,
bers of the club returned to the Soc
ial hall where they listened to an
interesting talk on mental hygiene
by Miss June Joslyn, an eastern Soc
ial worker. Mrs. N. j. Asberry is
member of this club and repre-
sents the colored federated clubs.
Officers Of Tacoma Lodge No. 142
for the ensuing year are: F. ]. Brod-
head, Exalted Ruler, Esteemed Lead
ing Knight, w. H. Shortridge, Es-
teemed Loyal Knight, 0'Neil Lam
der, Esteemed Lecturing Knight, L.
White, Tyler, Geo. Rideout, Inner
Guard, Mr.. Rousey, Outer Guard,
Esquire, FIed Chew, Ray Robinson,
Secretary, Fred Harris, Treasurer,
Ray Booker, Sergeant.
Miss Matilda Roberts has so far
recovered as to be out and attending
her work.
F. J. Brodhead, recently elected
exalted ruler of Mount Tacoma
Lodge No. 142, gives promise of
new spirit in the Elks here in Ia
coma. Brodhead is man of business
ability and should have been the
exalted ruler long ago. Most of the
other men elected previously were
all good men, but their business ex-
perience was small; good fellowship
is what most of our lodges, churches
and massmeetings of various kinds
elect men upon. We do not ask
whether a man or a woman has abil-
ity; we ask, "Do we like them?"
Have we an old grudge to whet or
an axe to grind and thus incompe-
tent men get in control and every
thing gets mixed up. If the stock
holdqrr in tha fxuo NaDro oorpora-