supper

noun, an evening social event, esp. one intended to raise money, at which a meal is served (COD); see also chicken supper, church supper, turkey supper

“I can remember after the supper, they’d clear the hallway and have a dance.”

“At the parish hall, they had a supper upstairs always.”

“Let me check my calendar. Oh, no. Oh, the Anglican church is holding their supper that night.”

“Then there’s the big suppers in January. I think that’s when it was, but anyway, when the ice had taken. The hall would be packed with people come from the city over, drove on the ice. And the same in the summer, had the big picnics up in the churchyard … It’s two meals: dinner and supper. I remember Mom, she had to take six chickens, six pies, and probably I must have had to take potatoes.”