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| Date: | 02 14 1950 |
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| Description: | Marshall high school gained basketball title honors in the Madison Suburban League for the sixth time in the 24-year history of the circuit. Coach Leonard ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1950 |
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| Description: | The Madison Rifle Club has won the Southern Wisconsin League Championship for the third straight year. The pictured sharpshooters won the 1949-50 title wit... |
| Date: | 03 31 1950 |
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| Description: | Nichols School poster contest for the Red Cross Blood Drive. At rear is Clifford Olson, chairman and sponsor of the contest for the Blooming Grove and Mono... |
| Date: | 04 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the winners of the American Legion Essay Contest, a school official, and officers of the American Legion Auxiliary. Seated, left to right... |
| Date: | 04 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Paul W. Gauger, speech instructor at Wisconsin High School, who is to be the master pronouncer at the spelling championship for the 21 Madison schools. |
| Date: | 04 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Spelling bee champion Arlene Brown of Janesville holding her trophy. Smiling on the right is her eighth grade teacher at St. Mary's Catholic school, Siste... |
| Date: | 04 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Second place spelling bee champion Dale Sorenson, left, receiving a $25 dollar check from Roy L. Matson, State Journal editor. Looking on are Dale's mother... |
| Date: | 04 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, gives a handshake to champion Arlene Brown of Janesville as runner-up Dale Sorenson looks on. |
| Date: | 05 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Official 1950 Soap Box Derby wheels are now available to any boy wishing to enter the 12th annual Wisconsin State Journal-Capital garage event. Charles Wh... |
| Date: | 04 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Badger Spelling Bee champion Arlene Brown stands before seated judges Mrs. Robert Taylor and Morton Schroeder, as Master Pronouncer Paul W. Gauger looks on... |
| Date: | 05 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Six grade school pupils defeated six Rotary adults 37 to 31 at the Rotary Club Spelling Bee at the Hotel Loraine. The spellers, Rotarians, and school child... |
| Date: | 06 1908 |
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| Description: | Members of the Lake Mills fire company pull the hose cart during a firemen's competition. |
| Date: | 05 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Five youth from the East Side Youth Activities Center make posters for the contest being held in connection with Madison Camp Week. The girls in the pictur... |
| Date: | 05 29 1950 |
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| Description: | 101 Madison Newspapers, Inc. carrier boys from Madison and southwestern Wisconsin stand by three charter buses before the start of their trip to the Memori... |
| Date: | 06 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Michael Welch is being sponsored by his dad's filling station, Welch's Service Station, 2030 University Avenue, and Jordan Brothers' grocery, 1863 Monroe S... |
| Date: | 07 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Winner of the "Best in Show" award at the fifth annual Badger Kennel club dog show was an Irish setter, Tyrone Farm Clancy, pictured with his owner Jack A.... |
| Date: | 07 02 1950 |
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| Description: | The Badger Kennel Club sponsored an essay contest on "Why I Should Own A Dog" and awarded purebred Cocker Spaniel puppies to winner Janice Emanuel and runn... |
| Date: | 07 07 1950 |
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| Description: | LeRoy Young, 1204 Lakeview Avenue, a Madison Soap Box contender, at the Hub Clothing Store, his sponsor for the race. Jim Schmitz, a store clerk, is showin... |
| Date: | 07 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Organizers of the 1950 Madison Soap Box Derby gather around a table while examining papers. Pictured left to right, front row, are: Glenn "Pat" Holmes, Joh... |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Mike Bencriscutto, Racine, standing in front of the Maple Bluff Country Club clubhouse while holding a large trophy. He was the winner of the Wisconsin St... |
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