On Sept. 5, 1937, the Daily News reported that Mrs. Mae Sweeney Horner had been missing for five days from her home in Bowling Green.

She was the widow of T.C. Horner and had been an invalid confined to her bed for several years prior to her disappearance. Police, the National Guard and the local Boy Scouts unsuccessfully searched her home in Bowling Green, her Warren County farm, and the river. Mrs. Horner was found in Nashville on Oct. 13, 1937, after dying in a fall from a fifth-floor window at the Tulane Hotel.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.