Buggy Disappears Wednesday Evening As Mysteriously as It Appeared

The buggy on top of Vermont's new 102-ft. water tower was removed sometime yesterday evening between six and eight, but how, and by whom, we have been unable to find out. Members of the village board say they know nothing about its disappearance but they aren't grieving, as it saved them a job. It could have possibly removed by the same parties who put it up, but as to that your guess is as good as ours.

We doubt that the pranksters who put it there ever dreamed of the reaction their little trick would have around the country.

The picture of the tower and its buggy have been circulated all over the nation by national news services and mayor Aubrey Nielsen, and other members of the village board have been receiving letters on every mail and also a number of phone calls from people offering suggestions on how to remove it or trying to get the job of removing it.

So far mayor Nielsen has received calls from Milwaukee, Rock Island, Chicago, and one from somewhere in Indiana from steeplejacks wanting the job of removing it.

There was a letter from the employees of the Whiting Corp., of Harvey, Ill., suggesting that they get a helicopter and attach a chain with a hook on it and then fly over the tower and lift the buggy off with the hook.

Other letters have been received from Rantoul; Chicago; Akron, Ohio, and Hutchinson, Kans.

Almost every day someone brings a clipping into this office that has been sent to them by some relative or friend. So far we have seen clippings carrying the picture in papers from Peoria, Decatur, Chicago, Kansas City Mo., and Flint, Mich., but this is no doubt only a small numbers of the papers that the picture has appeared in.... (rest of the newspaper article is missing, unknown newspaper, 1949 date)