The Southern Banc Company, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend

  
    
  
  
    
      The Southern Banc Company, Inc. (OTCBB: SRNN), headquartered in Gadsden, 
      Alabama, announced today that its Board of Directors is paying a 
      quarterly dividend in the amount of $.0875 per share on or about 
      September 22, 2008 to stockholders of record at the close of business on 
      August 22, 2008.
    
    
      The Southern Banc Company, Inc. is the holding company for The Southern 
      Bank Company, which conducts business through four banking offices in 
      Gadsden, Albertville, Guntersville and Centre, Alabama. At 06/30/2008, 
      the Company had 806,086 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, 
      approximately 193 stockholders of record and consolidated total assets 
      of $103 million.
    
    
      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 for 2008 and beyond 
      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.