[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Keeler, the postmaster at Croton Falls, and a gentleman who had seen consid-erable service in literary and newspaper work, that they enter into a newspaper enterprise. At first sev-eral difficulties of more or less magnitude and of a local character presented themselves, but were, one by one, disposed of, and the result was the issue of The Croton Falls News, on Wednesday, August 7, 1878. As the type and office properties had not yet been purchased, the first numbers of the paper were printed at Carmel, in Putnam County. J. W. Keeler and William H. Miller were the editorsand proprietors, and the paper was a folio thirteen by nineteen inches, five columns to the page, and presented a neat appear-ance. It aimedtobepurelyalocalpaperwithoutpreten-„ sions as to political or county preferences or patronage. Shortly after its first number was issued, having met with unexpected success and the hearty co-operation of the residents of North Salem and adjacent towns, an office was secured, type, etc., purchased, and it was henceforth published at Croton Falls, its pres-ent home. Mr. Miller, the original proprietor, dis-posed of his interest to Mr. Keeler, who devoted his attention to it for some five years, increasing its pop-ularity and subscription list until it reached a circu-lation of some five hundred copies weekly. At this time the editor was attacked with a serious illness, re-sulting from an accident which occurred while run-ning off an edition of the paper.