Article: Oak Hill Financial, Inc. and Towne Financial Corp. Sign Merger Agreement.

JACKSON and BLUE ASH, Ohio, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Oak Hill Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: OAKF) and Towne Financial Corp. (OTC: TOFI) jointly announced today the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Towne Financial by Oak Hill.

Under the terms of the agreement, Oak Hill will exchange 4.125 shares (the "Exchange Ratio") of its common stock for each of the 222,100 shares of Towne Financial stock. Based on the average of Oak Hill's closing bid and asked price of $19.22 on March 10, 1999, the transaction would be valued at $79.28 per share of Towne Financial stock, or approximately $17.6 million.

The merger, which will be accounted for as a ...

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