The Southern Banc Company, Inc. Announces 2008 Annual Report Availability

  
    
  
  
    
      The Southern Banc Company, Inc. (OTCBB: SRNN), the holding company for 
      The Southern Bank Company, announced that the company’s 
      2008 Annual Report is available at http://www.sobanco.com/investorrelations.shtml.
    
    
      Certain statements in this release contain “forward-looking 
      statements” within the meaning of the Private 
      Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which statements can generally 
      be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as “may,” 
      “will,” “expect,” 
      “estimate,” “anticipate,” 
      “believe,” “target,” 
      “plan,” “project,” 
      “continue,” or the 
      negatives thereof, or other variations thereon or similar terminology, 
      and are made on the basis of management’s 
      plans and current analyses of the Company, its business and the industry 
      as a whole. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and 
      uncertainties, including, but not limited to, economic conditions, 
      competition, interest rate sensitivity and exposure to regulatory and 
      legislative changes. The above factors, in some cases, have affected, 
      and in the future could affect the Company’s 
      financial performance and could cause actual results to differ 
      materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking 
      statements, even if experience or future changes make it clear that any 
      projected results expressed or implied therein will not be realized.