LIVERMORE – Clarence Gordon never had to use his gun to keep the peace in this rural town.

“I was a guy that kept peace peacefully,” said the 80-year-old former constable, who resigned the position Jan. 30 after serving for 30 years.

The select board accepted his resignation with regret Monday night.

Gordon surprised Town Office staff when he turned in his town-issued Smith & Wesson .38-Special revolver.

They didn’t know the town issued a gun with the duty in 1979, Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said.

The barrel is engraved with the date “Dec. 29, 1914,” making the gun 94 years old.

It is being kept at the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department until officials decide what to do with it.

Gordon also turned in his badge, engraved with “Livermore Police,” and the holster and bullets that went with the gun.

He never fired the gun. In fact, he never had cause to even load it, he said.

The first job Gordon could remember doing as constable was years ago when a man complained about a neighbor’s dog barking all night. “I did it easily,” Gordon said. “I didn’t ruffle any feathers.”

The only other time he went out to take care of an issue, he said, was when Frank Castonguay, also of Livermore, reported that his dog was barking at something in the woods. Come to find out, his dog had cornered a woodchuck in a stone wall, Gordon said.

He was appointed constable by Selectmen Uno Pullkinen, Raymond Lovewell and J. Lowell Bowles, according to town reports.

Gordon was on the SAD 36 Board of Directors at the time, Schaub said.

“Clarence is one of those people that if you need some help with a project and you call Clarence, you’ll get the help you need,” Schaub said.

“He’s a very outgoing and involved man with a deep commitment to his community.”