| Vol 8, No 359 | December 25, 1887 | Sunday Evening |
On this date in 1887, Conrad Hilton was born in Socorro County, NM. In 1919, when the oil boom hit Ranger, he moved to nearby Cisco to seek his fortune. He purchased the Mobley hotel, claiming that it was the only way he could get a place to sleep. Originally, rooms were rented to oil field workers for 8 hours at a time, thereby tripling the hotels revenue. Hilton went on to found an empire of Hilton hotels worldwide.
