WALDYSLUW  RAYKOWSKL  of  Shenandoah,  where  he  is  best  known
as  J.  W.  Raykowski.  is  carrying  on  a  thriving  business  in  that  borough  as  a
shoe  dealer,  and  by  honorable  treatment  of  all  his  patrons  has  become  one  of
the  popular  merchants  there.  He  is  a  native  of  Russian  Poland,  born  June
27.  1872,  at  Gonsewe,  son  of  Stanislaw  Raykowski,  who  was  born  at  the  same
place  and  died  when  his  son  Waldysluw  was  six  years  old.  The  father  fol-
lowed farming  in  his  native  land  all  his  life,  and  he  and  the  mother  Leonora
(  Bartut)  are  buried  at  Szelun,  near  the  village  of  Gonsewe.  They  were  mem-
bers of  the  Polish  Roman  Catholic  Qiurcl).  They  had  eight  children:  An-
thony, who  was  drowned  when  twenty-two  years  old;  Frank;  Alexander,  a
farmer,  who  served  nine  years  in  the  Russian  army ;  Rosalya ;  John,  a  clerk  in
the  post  oftice  at  Pultsk,  Poland:  Waldysluw  (in  English  Walter);  Enoch,
and  Ignace.     Frank,  the  elder  brother,  reared  all  his  brothers.
