Exhibit
99.1


The
      Wilber Corporation Announces Dividend


FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE




DATE:
            July
      18, 2008FROM:
            Douglas
      C. Gulotty, President and CEOPHONE:
            607-433-4172





Oneonta, New York, July 18, 2008 –The Board of Directors of The Wilber Corporation (“Company”), parent
Company of Wilber National Bank (“Bank”) and Provantage Funding Corporation
(“Provantage”), declared a quarterly dividend of $0.095 per share at its July
18, 2008 meeting.  The dividend will be paid on August 28, 2008 to
stockholders of record on August 14, 2008.  This compares to $0.095
per share for the same period in 2007.




The
Wilber Corporation is a single bank holding company headquartered in Oneonta,
New York, serving the financial needs of the communities of central and upstate
New York.  The Wilber Corporation is the parent of Wilber National
Bank and Provantage Funding Corporation. The Wilber Corporation’s common stock
trades under the symbol “GIW” on the American Stock Exchange.




Wilber
National Bank, chartered in 1874, operates as a traditional commercial bank in
its central New York market with 22 branch offices located in Otsego, Delaware,
Schoharie, Ulster, Chenango, Broome and Saratoga Counties and three loan
production offices located in Syracuse, Cicero & Clifton Park, New
York.  The Bank intermediates customer deposits and institutional
borrowings into loans, short-term liquid investments, and investment
securities.  The Bank’s lending activities include commercial lending,
primarily to small and mid-sized businesses; mortgage lending for 1-4 family and
multi-family properties, including home equity loans; mortgage lending for
commercial properties; consumer installment and automobile lending; and, to a
lesser extent, agricultural lending. The Bank provides personal trust, agency,
estate administration, and retirement planning services for individuals, as well
as custodial and investment management services to institutions, through its
Trust and Investment Division.  It also offers stocks, bonds and
mutual funds through the third party broker-dealer firm INVeSTÒ.The Bank
currently has 297 full time equivalent employees.  Additional
information about Wilber National Bank can be found at its
website:  www.wilberbank.com.




Provantage
is a licensed New York State mortgage banker headquartered in Clifton Park, New
York.  Provantage offers a large variety of residential mortgage
products that fit the needs of most consumers. It is also a HUD endorsed lender,
providing government FHA loans.  Provantage covers the entire Capital
District with five licensed branch offices located within Saratoga, Schenectady,
and Albany counties. Additional information about Provantage can be found at its
website:  www.ProvantageFunding.com.





NOTE:  This
release may contain certain statements which are historical facts or which
concern the Company’s future operations or economic performance and which are to
be considered forward-looking statements. Any such forward-looking statements
are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company cautions that all forward-looking
statements involve risk and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ
from those indicated in the forward-looking statements as a result of various
factors, such as changing economic and competitive conditions and other risk and
uncertainties. In addition, any statements in this release regarding historical
stock price performance are not indicative of or guarantees of future price
performance.










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