The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-17
Baptisrnal Font Is
 Given Grace Church
MT and Mrs Arthur Twelves Make Presentation in A Honor of First GradsOn
WATERVILLE

Founders Day was celebrated
 at Grace Methodist church yes terday with an appropriate pro-
 gram of services in the morning
 and evening. Seldom has the church auditorium presented a
 more attractive appearance with quantities of bright-colored fall flowers used in profusion In the chancel and other portions of the
 church. The new pews were Tn
 place and used for the first time. They are filled with five new green cushions. The work of the Ladies' Aid Society gave to the auditor
 ium a much more dignified appear ance, They replace the folding . chairs and benches which have done duty there for so many years
 and harmonize in appearance
 with the recently completed chan
 eel rail and communion table. & A new baptismal font was for z mally presented to the church at syesterday mornings service and was used for the first time in connec-
 ton with the baptisms which -.were part of yesterdays service. It :. was presented by MT. and Mrs. -Arthur Twelves in honor of their first grandson, John William Ny -gren, who, incidentally, was priv - ileged to be the first child to be ~baptized at the font. He is the son . of MT. and Mrs. Irving Nygren MT. and Mrs. John H. Twelves . Mrs. Nygren was formerly Miss = Mae Twelves. Others baptized ~ were Evelyn Ruth, daughter of ~Mr. and Mrs. Legrand Saunders, p1I v1 nf
 and Mrs. John M. E. Johnson.
 At the evening services, the pas 4.tor, Rev. Mulford B. Simonson -.preached on Faith of our Fa- .- thers." During the talk he gave an Historical sketch of the local church referring to the work. of ., the various clergymen who had -aprecedid him as pastor and to the -~scores of outstanding parishioners ~ who had worked hard for Grace = Church for more than fifty years since it set itself up as separate = parish after first starting as . a branch of the First Methodist <. church, the mother church" of Methodism in the city. MT. Simon son had preached on Advancing Toward Maturity" at the morning = services.
 s Assisting Mir. Simonson at the evening services was Arthur Vest ~- wood, son of MT. and Mrs. William z Westwood of Cooke street. This
 young man has been substituting \ for the pastor during the summer s- vacation period and returns this week to his studies at the Bangor. v (Maine) Theological Seminary where he is preparing himself for ss4, To fe, a s- of the outstanding joung men ot Grace Methodist church where he Y has been very active since child hood and has made remarkably fine impression this summer. A \ great career in the ministry is ap- rs parently before him and he re- ~ turns to his studies this week with the best wishes of his host of local
 friends both within and outside {. his church.
 z. A Fellowship Supper was served -a by the ladies of the church at 5:30 = D, m, This was attended by a large gathering including many who had been associated with the !. church years ago.
 s- Among those present were Mrs. \ Pratt, who will be remembered
 by many as Marion Service, daugh- z ter of the late Rev. Frank Service 6 who was pastor of Grace Church N about eighteen years ago. Mrs. 2 Pratt is the guest of Mrs. A. J. Lane.
 MT. Simonson paid special trib- z ute to the corps of workers drawn s% from both the men and women of the parish, who had made the new pews and cushions possible. The work on the pews was super- z vised by Mcssrs. Alan Fairhurst, ~ Arthur Twelves and William Vest wood and the president of the La- dies Aid Society directed the work m on the cushions.
 Fairmount Community Club
 The September meeting of the 2 Fairmount Community club, which was postponed from last week will take place at eight o'clock this eve ming at St Michaeps parish hall. i President Frank Bailey will be in