Was going to go to ball but could not get a date, George Ayres, Black Hills Daily Times |g Oct 01 1880, p.4 , col.3
Wholesale & retail hardware, ad, Ismon & Ayres, Black Hills Daily Times |g Sep 01 1882, p.1 , col.2
Successor to R.C. Lake Hardware, giant powder, ad, Ismon & Ayres, Black Hills Daily Times |g Mar 01 1883, p.2 , col.6
George Ayres, our popular hardware merchant, returned last evening from a purchasing trip in the eastern cities. He was so occupied with laying in his stock of goods that he forgot to get married. Black Hills Daily Times March 28, 1884, p. 3, col. 2.
Rubber and leather belting, cotton and rubber, hose and packing -- Ayres and Wardman Hardware, Deadwood, Dakota. Ayres and Wardman Hardware. Black Hills Daily Times, July 1, 1886, p.1, col.6.
The Black Hills: Or, The Last Hunting Ground of the Dakotahs By Annie D. Tallent, 1899.